The story
Audio tour · Sigismund's Column
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You're standing on Castle Square in Warsaw, next to Sigismund's Column, one of the city's best-known landmarks. Look up to the top. That's King Sigismund the Third, cast in bronze and almost three metres tall. He holds a cross in his left hand and a sabre in his right. Can you see the helmet with ostrich feathers under his right foot? And across his chest hangs the medallion of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
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