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- Manneken Peace (Manneken Pis) in Brussels
This impudent emblem of Brussels has attracted tourists for centuries, but after such advertising you may be disappointed with this small statue of a pissing boy. The statue is smaller than you might expect. According to legend, a man lost his little son. He found the child two days later near the place where the fountain of the pissing boy is now located. When the father discovered his son, he wrote. In gratitude, my father built a fountain with a statue. The first mention of Manneken dates back to 1377, and, they say, it symbolizes the thoughts of the Belgians about the authorities. The modern statue was commissioned by the sculptor Jerome Duquenois in 1619. It's a copy; the original was confiscated by French soldiers in 1747. The king of France, Louis XV, was the first to introduce the Mannequin Peace in a suit embroidered in gold. Now the statue has 517 other costumes for ceremonies, this is an ever-increasing collection.
