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Two chapels flank the entrance (they were both built as funerary chapels):
- On the left is the Baroque
Vasa Chapel, or Kaplica Wazow, built a hundred years later, but with an identical
ground plan as the earlier Sigismund's Chapel. It was planned in 1598 by King Sigismund
Vasa (the son).
- On the right is the Renaissance
King Sigismund's Chapel, or Kaplica Zygmuntowska, or or Zygmunt Chapel, covered
with a gilt dome. This is is one of the most notable pieces
of architecture in Krakow and perhaps the purest example of Renaissance architecture
outside Italy. It was financed by King Sigismund I
the Old, it was built in 1517-33
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