{"id":6157,"date":"2009-10-05T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2009-10-05T23:06:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:06:27","slug":"castle-square-plac-zamkowy-in-warsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/6157","title":{"rendered":"Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy) in Warsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the entrance to the Old Town in Warsaw is Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy) .\u00a0Adjacent to\u00c2\u00a0Castle Square\u00c2\u00a0is the Royal Castle, the official residence of the Polish kings from the 16th Century until the end of the 19th Century.<\/p>\n<p>In Castle Square\u00c2\u00a0itself stands the impressive Zygmunt&#8217;s Column, a monument and national landmark commemorating King Zygmunt III Waza who moved Poland&#8217;s capital from Krakow to Warsaw in 1596. Atop the column is a statue of King Zygmunt III Waza, wielding a sword and a cross.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6158\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Zigmunts-Column.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6158\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6158   \" title=\"Zygmunt's Column\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Zigmunts-Column-682x1023.jpg\" alt=\"Zigmunt's Column\" width=\"245\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zygmunt&#39;s Column<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Zygmunt&#8217;s Column (Warsaw, Poland). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 Sep 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6159\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/King-Zygmunt-III-Waza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6159\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6159  \" title=\"King Zygmunt III Waza\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/King-Zygmunt-III-Waza-682x1023.jpg\" alt=\"King Zygmunt III WazaKing Zygmunt III Waza\" width=\"245\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Zygmunt III Waza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Statue of King Zygmunt III Waza\u00c2\u00a0(Warsaw, Poland). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 Sep 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6160\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Royal-Castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6160\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6160  \" title=\"The Royal Castle\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Royal-Castle-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The Royal Castle\" width=\"368\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Royal Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: The Royal Castle (Warsaw, Poland). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 28 Sep 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the entrance to the Old Town in Warsaw is Castle Square (Plac Zamkowy). <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/6157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-1Bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}