An obligatory element in photos from Warsaw.
11.05.2011Castle Square would not be complete without the Sigismund Column. Fragments of the column (the one that probably didn't survive the uprising) lie nearby at the entrance to the Royal Castle. Inne look at the column is the view from the vantage point of St. Anne's Church (then you don't have to pull your head up to look the king in the eye).
12.09.2010In 17th-century Europe, only saints deserved the honor of having a monument. So it was an act of some courage to erect the first monument in Warsaw in 1644 to a person of thesecular - the column of King Sigismund III Vasa. The monument was founded by the king's son Ladislaus IV. At his behest, Constantino Tencalli designed the monument, and Clemente Molli sculpted the statue. The bronze casting was made by Daniel Thym. On a 22-meter column made of Chęciny marble stood a gilded statue of the monarch, holding a cross in one hand and a sword in the other. In 1944, during the first days of the Warsaw Uprising, the Sigismund Column collapsed, but was restored in 1949.
Peter - 14.03.2008
