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Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland Royalty Free Stock Photo

Column of the King Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw Royalty Free Stock Photo

King Sigismund III Vasa column and Royal Castle, Old Town, Warsaw, Poland. Royalty Free Stock Photo

King Sigismund III Vasa on the top of Sigismund`s Column in Old town of Warsaw at night Royalty Free Stock Photo

Column of Sigismund III - a monument to the king in the square in front of the Royal Palace in Warsaw Royalty Free Stock Photo

Column of the King Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw

Royal Castle on Castle Square with king Sigismund III Vasa column in Warsaw Royalty Free Stock Photo

Castle Square with king Sigismund III Vasa column, Warsaw. Royalty Free Stock Photo

King Sigismund III Vasa statue on top of the Corinthian column at Old Town Royalty Free Stock Photo

Old town square on Warsaw with king Sigismund III Vasa monument, Poland. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Warsaw Castle Square with king Sigismund III Vasa column. Royalty Free Stock Photo

The scarf was put on the statue by fans of the Legia Warszawa football club on May 24, 2014 to celebrate the winning of a football championship of Poland in 2014. Sigismunds Column (Polish: Kolumna Zygmunta), erected in 1644, is located in Castle Square in Warsaw, Poland. It is one of Warsaws most famous landmarks and one of the oldest secular monuments in northern Europe. The column and statue commemorate King Sigismund III Vasa, who in 1596 had moved Polands capital from Krakow to Warsaw. The king is dressed in armor and carries a cross in one hand and wields a sword in the other On 1 September 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising, the monument was demolished by Germans and its bronze statue was badly damaged. After the war the statue was repaired and in 1949 it was set up on a new column, made of granite. The original broken pieces of the column can still be seen lying next to the Royal Castle.