Aleksander Fredro Monument in Wrocław, Bronze statue in Market Square, Poland.
The Aleksander Fredro Monument is a bronze statue on Wroclaw's Market Square showing the Polish comedy writer seated on a sandstone base. He holds a quill and a paper roll, as if he were in the middle of writing.
The bronze statue was created by sculptor Leonard Marconi in 1897 and originally stood in Lviv, the city where Fredro was born. It was moved to Wroclaw in 1956, after the major population shifts that followed World War II reshaped the region.
Aleksander Fredro is considered one of the most celebrated writers of Polish comedy, and the statue makes that clear through the quill and paper roll he holds. Many visitors stop to read the inscriptions on the base before moving on to explore the rest of the square.
The monument stands in the center of the Market Square and is easy to spot as soon as you step onto the plaza. The area around it is flat and open, making it accessible for visitors with limited mobility.
Before Fredro's statue arrived, this very spot held a monument to Frederick William III of Prussia. Replacing a Prussian king with a Polish writer in the heart of the city was a clear sign of how deeply the city's identity had changed after the war.
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