Adam Mickiewicz Monument

Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Kraków is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland. The statue of Adam Mickiewicz, the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century, was unveiled on June 16, 1898, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, in the presence of his daughter and son. Adam Mickiewicz had himself never been to Kraków. In 1890, 35 years after his death, his remains were brought there from Paris and ceremoniously laid to rest in the St. Leonard’s Crypt under the Wawel Cathedral, which partially inspired the project with the original idea put forward by university youth.