St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków’s town center is famous for the trumpeter that plays from the window of its taller tower every hour and the fact that he abruptly stops mid-song in the same way a 13th century trumpeter did when he tried to warn the city that the Mongols were coming but got an arrow to the throat through the tower window before he finished his call.

St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków’s town center is famous for the trumpeter that plays from the window of its taller tower every hour and the fact that he abruptly stops mid-song in the same way a 13th century trumpeter did when he tried to warn the city that the Mongols were coming but got an arrow to the throat through the tower window before he finished his call.

Photo taken at: St. Mary’s Basilica, Kraków

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