Ostrogski Castle

Warszawa · Polen · Palace

Beneath Ostrogski Castle on the escarpment at Okolnik, today the Chopin museum, Warsaw's most retold legend places an underground lake. On it swims the Golden Duck, a princess turned into a bird. The poor shoemaker Lutek went down into the vaults on midsummer night and was handed a hundred ducats on a single condition: every coin had to be spent on his own pleasure before the day was out, and not one given to anyone else. He got through ten before he met a crippled veteran of Napoleon's wars in the street and handed over the rest. The duck vanished with the treasure and has never shown herself since. Warsaw kept the story as a measuring stick for people, and a small sculpture of the duck sits in the pool beside the castle.

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Hvor ligger Ostrogski Castle?

Ostrogski Castle ligger i Warszawa, Polen.

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