"Imperia" is a statue of a shapely harlot holding in her fist, or rather, in the palms of her two hands, a deformed Martin V – the pope elected in 1417 at the Council that ended the Western Schism – and a grotesque King Sigismund. In short, a brazen and prosaic warning: even the most powerful men of the Middle Ages were slaves to the weaknesses of the flesh.
Erected in 1993 by the artist Peter Lenk and becoming the symbol of Constance, "Imperia" has the particularity of rotating 360 degrees so as never to show only the "B side" to those arriving from the lake or those strolling along the port of the largest town overlooking the Bodensee, as the third largest body of fresh water in Europe is called in these parts.
