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Sigismund’s Column (Polish: Kolumna Zygmunta) erected in 1644 is located in Castle Square Warsaw Poland. It is one of Warsaw’s 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 Poland’s capital from Kraków to Warsaw.On the Corinthian column (which used to be of red marble) 8.5 m high a sculpture of the King 2.75-metres high in archaistic armour is placed.
