View of Kraków

An vast panorama of Kraków and its suburbs, shown from a bird's eye view from the west, at the top of the coat of arms and ribbons with a description of the components of the city complex. Above the Wawel Hill, the crowned coat of arms of the Crown (White Eagle with a Sheaf on its chest), surrounded by a chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, at the sides of the laurel wreaths, the coat of arms of the Sforza family (on the left) and the coat of arms of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania - Pogoń (on the right). In the foreground there is a staffage - a solemn procession of Polish riders approaching the city - perhaps a simplified reminiscence of Sigismund III Vasa and Constance Habsburg's entry to Krakow (1605). The picture comes from the work "Civitates Orbis Terrarum...." by Georg Braun (1541-1622), geographer and topographer, archdeacon in Dortmund, canon and dean in St. Maria ad Gradus in Cologne.