Plague Column

The plague column originally stood in the old Most on the first square, it is from 1681 by the Italian sculptor Peter of Tuscany and was intended to commemorate the victims of the plague epidemic of 1680, in which more than 1 people from Most and the surrounding area died. From the prismatic base, which is fitted at the corners with four stone sculptures of Saints, rises a tall cylindrical column, supported by four standing putti at the foot and finished with a Corinthian…