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Museum), 7 - former seminary building, 8 - new house in place of the old Curate’s
House buildings, 9 - Thiefs’ Tower, 10 - former Austrian hospital, 11 - Sandomierz
Tower, 12 - round bastions, 13 - Herbowa Gate, 14 so-called Ladislaus IV’s
Bastion, with the Tadeusz Kosciuszko monument, 15 - Vasa Gate, 16 - tower with
the staircase to the Dragon’s Cave, 17 - Bernardine Gate
wall on the left bears hundreds of sandstone plaques, each
marking a contribution to the cause of rebuilding the castle. The
gate decorated with the coats of arms of Polish provinces,
contemporary with the plaques, leads onto a small square, over-
looked by a polygonal bastion with an equestrian statue of
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, by Leonard Marconi. The current statue is
a replica of the original destroyed by the Germans, and was
donated to Cracow by the citizens of Dresden.
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House buildings, 9 - Thiefs’ Tower, 10 - former Austrian hospital, 11 - Sandomierz
Tower, 12 - round bastions, 13 - Herbowa Gate, 14 so-called Ladislaus IV’s
Bastion, with the Tadeusz Kosciuszko monument, 15 - Vasa Gate, 16 - tower with
the staircase to the Dragon’s Cave, 17 - Bernardine Gate
wall on the left bears hundreds of sandstone plaques, each
marking a contribution to the cause of rebuilding the castle. The
gate decorated with the coats of arms of Polish provinces,
contemporary with the plaques, leads onto a small square, over-
looked by a polygonal bastion with an equestrian statue of
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, by Leonard Marconi. The current statue is
a replica of the original destroyed by the Germans, and was
donated to Cracow by the citizens of Dresden.
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