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Wawel Cathedral

Posted on July 5, 2009
Wawel Cathedral is possibly the most historic place of Poland. The style is, in large part, Gothic, dating from the reign of King Wladyslaw the short (1306-1333) and of Kazimierz the Great (1333-1370). Wawel Cathedral, Poland's national sanctuary, was the coronation of the monarch of Poland. It is probably the most interesting place in the country, together with the adjacent Royal Wawel Castle. Its walls, XIV century, house a wide variety of art objects, from Gothic to Renaissance to Baroque, the classicist, the modern. It is also the burial of a royal of all Poland, and many heroes, two poets, four saints and a bisheop of Krakow. Eighteen chapels, filled with artistic values, surround Wawel Cathedral. Sigismund Chapel, beautiful 'white pearl of the Renaissance', vis-s-vis the grave of Queen Jadwiga, is the best acquisition of Renaissance architecture and sculpture in Poland and the entire north of Europe. It also keeps the demands Baroque, with black marble in the chapel, Vasa.
Among the five bells hung in turn, will find the bell 'Zygmunt', one of the largest in Europe and that weighs 11 tons. It was cast at the beginning of the century 16 retail but it is interesting that he was' cast 'bronze cannons captured by Poland in the novels.
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Roman Catholic Cathedral

Posted on June 4, 2009

Built in the XIII-th century, transylvania04 is the most valuable monument of early medieval architecture in Transylvania, which harmoniously combines elements of the Gothic Romance.
The building was conceived as a basilica with three ships, transept with three semicircular apses, turn over and two square towers on the west side, later adding the two ships in that area .

The most important building from the early Renaissance in Transylvania is undoubtedly chapel "Lazo", located on the north side of the cathedral, inside it is a ribbed vault late Gothic, with key vault decorated with figures of Transylvanian .

Inside the cathedral is the sarcophagus of Iancu de Hunedoara, along with the brother Johannes Miles, son or greater Ladislau (located in the ship south side) and those of Queen Isabella and his son John Sigismund.

Notre-Dame Cathedral

Posted on May 11, 2009

Situated in the Ile from Cite the Notre Dame Cathedral probably is the most known symbol of Paris. His construction began in 1163 though the first stone that was by Alexander the III and it was finished after 170 years. In the present the building is submit to a restoration process with UNESCO and also from UE. The building has 60 meters high and 130 length.

The cathedral it is situated in the Paris-Notre-Dame market, where you can arrive with numerous means of transport. The cathedral is opened for visiting in each day between 8 and 19o'clock.The cathedral museum it is on Coitre-Notre-Dame street and it is opened on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday between 14 and 18 o'clock.

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