We walked out to the Lion Monument too. That was more interesting than I thought it would be. Not only is it an amazing piece of sculpture, but I had no idea what it was for. It's a memorial for the 100 swiss guards that were killed while being hired out to defend the King of France in the late 1700s. Just thinking about it today, any loss of life is sad. Loss of life of countrymen, family and friends is even more so. This would have hit the Swiss as a very large tragedy, just as the Las Vegas shooting a couple weeks ago was a national tragedy for us.
I missed posting this one earlier. This was up at the Salzburg Fortress. I LOVE these sun dials.
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