Kraków – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:02:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Jagiello, Wladyslaw https://equestrianstatue.org/jagiello-wladyslaw/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1491 The monument (also known as the Battle of Grunwald monument) was unveiled on 15th July 1910, i.e. precisely on the 500th anniversary of the battle, in the presence of around 150,000 onlookers. The monument was destroyed by the Nazis in 1939. Its reconstruction and repeated unveiling did not take place until 1976. The author of … Continue reading "Jagiello, Wladyslaw"

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]]> Kosciuszko, Thaddeus https://equestrianstatue.org/kosciuszko-thaddeus/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1575 Thanks to the efforts of a newly formed Tadeusz Kościuszko Society the  statue was cast soon after Marconi’s death in 1900 . The Austrian government  however refused to issue the permit for its placement during the time of the imperial partitions of Poland. For this reason the statue was erected no less than twenty years later in 1920, once the Polish … Continue reading "Kosciuszko, Thaddeus"

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