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. Birds Hall
This Baroque hall with VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
a marble fireplace is the
first of a suite of rooms Practical Information
decorated in the Vaza style. Wawel Hill. Map 3 C1 (6 D5).
Tel 12 422 51 55 (info); 12 422
16 97 (tickets). Open Nov–Mar:
9:30am–4pm Tue–Sat, 10am–
4pm Sun; Apr–Oct: 9:30am–5pm
Tue–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat & Sun.
Closed 1 Jan, Easter Sat & Sun, 1 &
11 Nov, 24–25 & 31 Dec. & free
Sun (Nov–Mar). 8 - =
Transport
@ 504. v 6, 8, 10, 13, 18.

Deputies’
Staircase

Second floor

. Hall of Deputies
This hall, used for debates by the lower
house of Parliament (Sejm), is decorated
with a coffered ceiling containing realistically
carved heads, as well as tapestries and a
decorative frieze.

Study in the “Hen’s Claw” Wing
An allegory of music and
putti, surrounded by musical
Entrance to the Royal instruments, can be admired
Apartments on the ceiling here.
Ground
floor

King’s Bedroom
In the first half of the
16th century, the king’s
bedroom, the dining room
and the apartments of the
ladies-in-waiting were all
situated on the first floor.
Cobbled Grodzka street, one of the oldest streets in Krakow