Krasiński Garden

This guide to Krasiński Garden in Warsaw opens with the Roman battle scene carved above the palace entrance in sixteen seventy-seven, a raven diving at a Gaulish warrior's eyes, and the noble family that claimed the defeated Roman commander as its own ancestor. It follows sculptor Andreas Schlüter's carving and the Krasiński family's own raven coat of arms, and traces where that claimed lineage actually seems to have come from. The palace grounds opened to ordinary Varsovians as a public garden back in seventeen sixty-eight.