The monument of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nicolaus_Copernicus" class="extiw" title="w:en:Nicolaus Copernicus">Nicolaus Copernicus</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Krak%C3%B3w" class="extiw" title="w:en:Kraków">Kraków</a> was created in 1899 by Cyprian Godebskiego and on 8 June 1900 was formally unveiled in the courtyard of the Collegium Maius of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jagiellonian_University" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jagiellonian University">Jagiellonian University</a>. In 1953, at the initiative of Charles Estreicher, the monument was transferred to Planty at the Collegium Witkowski of the Jagiellonian University where it stands today. [The monument was originally designed as a fountain.]<br><span style="color:blue;"><i>The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Scotch_Mist/Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Scotch Mist/Poland">Scotch Mist Gallery</a> contains many photographs of historic buildings, monuments and memorials of Poland.</i></span>
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