Monumento di Grunwald

Kraków, Italy

The Grunwald Monument (Polish: Pomnik Grunwaldzki) is an equestrian statue of King of Poland Władysław II Jagiełło (1352–1434) located at Matejko Square in Kraków, Poland. It was constructed in 1910 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, when an alliance of the Crown of the

Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania decisively defeated the German Teutonic Order. The statue depicts Jagiełło atop his horse with his cousin, and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas to his front. On either side of Jagiełło are soldiers lifting their arms in celebration of victory. Depicted lying dead at the steps of the statue is Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights Ulrich von Jungingen. It was destroyed by German soldiers following the Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939, but was reconstructed in 1976 based on a design by Marian Konieczny.

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