The Renaissance town hall - formerly the seat of municipal authorities. The building rebuilt in the mid-16th century by the Italian Giovanni Battista di Quadro of Lugano now houses the Historical Museum of the City of Poznan. Indoors, of particular beauty is the Great Hall known as the Renaissance Room, one of the finest Renaissance interiors in Poland – two sandstone pillars support a vault with coffers containing polychromic sculptures representing coats of arms, biblical and mythological scenes, exotic animals and planets. And on the town hall tower, every day at high noon two goats, the symbol of Poznan, clash heads. [Anna Plenzler; Historic monuments in Poznan; Poznan 2007]