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Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Kraków
Monument in Kraków, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków (Polish: Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika) is a notable landmark of Kraków, Poland. It memorializes the astronomer Copernicus, who studied at the Kraków Academy and whose father came from that city, then the capital of Poland.
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The statue, designed by sculptor Cyprian Godebski in 1899, was completed in 1900.[1] It originally stood in the courtyard of the Jagiellonian University's Collegium Maius. In 1953 it was moved to Kraków's Planty Park, in front of the Collegium Witkowski building.