The monument of the “Battle of Parkan”, a bronze equestrian statue of the anti-Turkish warrior and military leader, the Polish King John III Sobieski, stands in front of the Roman Catholic parish office near the Church of St. Emeric.
It measures 665 cm; the statue itself is 325 cm tall and is placed on a pedestal with fragments of a broken wheel and a Turkish crescent. The sculptor is the Hungarian artist Lajos Győrfy.
The monument was ceremonially unveiled on 25 October 2008 on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the Battle of Parkan, and was the first statue of the Polish King John Sobieski abroad. The town thus commemorated the 325th anniversary of the liberation of the original settlement of Parkan from Turkish rule by Polish royal troops. The then village of Parkan was liberated by King Sobieski and the Polish prince Charles of Lorraine, as the last territory of today’s Slovakia after 140 years of Turkish rule.
The memorial to this event, a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of Sobieski on horseback, was erected by the Limes Anavum Civic Association. The monument proclaims the ideas of Polish–Slovak–Hungarian friendship and solidarity.