She is thirty feet high and weighs 36 thousand pounds and every inch of her voluptuous and barely-concealed anatomy is alluring - except perhaps for the two naked and wizened old men who sit in the palms of each of her upraised hands, one a pope the other an emperor.
The statute of the courtesan Imperia by German artist Peter Lenk is not just the most "photographed attraction" in the lakeside resort town of Constance Sometimes referred to as Konstanz in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg , it is the only public sculpture to so conspicuously memorialize a prostitute.
Revolving at a rate of once every three minutes to display her magnificent form from every angle, she presides over the harbor symbolizing just one of the many sins that are an intricate part of this city's history and if you can appreciate that, you'll love Constance. Six hundred years ago, Constance was the place where the Catholic church fitfully but finally resolved the question of who and how many men should rule the Catholic church and from where.
It was far from the great yawn that my last sentence suggests. During the Council of Constance, from to , the city population swelled from 7, to between 10,00 and 20, as representatives of the great European powers arrived to bicker about the three men who each claimed the papacy; Gregory in Rome, John XXIII in Pisa and Benedict in Avignon.
In this beautiful waterfront community, Cardinals, academics, Bishops and Archbishops settled in for the long-haul. As with any gathering of men - be it conventioneers or sailors, the prostitutes weren't far behind.
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