Warsaw Poland


November 23, 2004

Kolumna Zygmunta Warsaw

Category: Monument Warsaw – admin – 11:06 am

Kolumna Zygmunta is Warsaws oldest secular monument. The column exists since 1644, and can be found on the castles square.

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The meaning of the monument is the remembrance of Polands change of its capital from Krakow to Warsaw in 1596.

Kolumna Zygmunta has a height of 22 metres. Tourists like the monument as the starting point for their Warsaw explorations.

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