1. Castle I - It contains the entire first floor of the Castle: Royal Private Apartments with The Porcelain Cabinet, Art. Of the Orient and seasonally Royal Gardens

duration 60 min.

September 29, 2024, 09:00

Once reserved for the royal family and their courtiers and guests, these rooms hold Renaissance furnishings, Italian paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection, and Flemish tapestries from the holdings of King Sigismund II Augustus. Several rooms retain their original 16th-century painted wooden ceilings and friezes. the President of the Republic of Poland. Wawel’s collection of Meissen porcelain and table silver from the so-called Saxon period (1697–1763; Wettin kings Augustus II and Augustus III) are on view on this floor. Throughout its history, the vast Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had myriad contacts with the lands of Islam, and their splendid arts and crafts struck a chord with the tastes of the Poles. Through trade contacts and military conflicts magnificent carpets, silks and wall hangings, arms and armor The collection of East Asian porcelain is testimony to 18th-century Europe’s fascination with distant and exotic China and Japan.