This is Imperia, she is a statue of a whore holding the king in one hand and the pope in the other. It's a rather prominent symbol here in Konstanz. You see Konstanz was the site of something important papal dealings back in the day (1400s or something), so this statues says something about the power prostitutes (and women in general) had over both the church and crown.
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Had? Don't you mean still have?
The power and influence of those times didn't quite vanish into thin air...
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