A Year in Pictures – Statue on Wawel Cathedral

[swan_tower]

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Wawel Cathedral in Kraków is a weirdly eclectic building; it looks like several different buildings stapled together, with random statuary and such sprinkled around its exterior. I have no idea which Polish king this is supposed to be (I presume he’s a king), but I like the way he’s juxtaposed against the window behind.

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Comments

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

I like that Poland elected its kings. I wonder if they always did that, or if it had been hereditary originally.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit I know very little about Polish history.

[eve-prime.livejournal.com]

I know very little of it myself. I've only heard of this because they elected one of Catherine de Medici's sons to be the king of Poland, but after a while, because his older brothers had died, they needed him to come back and be king of France instead (Henri III).