One of the original edifices is Sigismund's (the Sigismundian) Column in the centre of the courtyard in front of the Castle (Plac Zamkowy, Castle Square), one of the oldest secular monuments in Poland (1644), depicting King Sigismund III Vasa who moved the country's capital from Kraków to Warsaw in 1597. The statue survived the War, though it lost one palm and the sabre. |