Jeanneke Pis (City of Brussels)

Belgium / Brussel / Brussels / City of Brussels / Impasse de la Fidélité / Getrouwheidsgang
 statue, fountain, sculpture
Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels, which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city's trademark Manneken Pis, as it does aurally and geographically, being about the same distance away on the other side of the Grand Place / Grote Markt.

It was made by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 and endowed with its own instant legend, the better to amuse strollers. This half-metre-high statue of blue-grey limestone depicts a little girl with her hair in bunches, squatting and urinating, apparently very contentedly. It is located on the east side of the Impasse de la Fidélité / Getrouwheidsgang (Faith Alley), a narrow dead-end street some 100 metres long leading northwards off the restaurant-packed Rue des Bouchers / Beenhouwersstraat (Butchers' Street). It is less well known than its male counterpart, perhaps because of its relative modernity or because of its location near the closed end of the street.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanneke_Pis
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   50°50'54"N   4°21'14"E

Comments

  • Sikająca Dziewczynka - pomnik z 1987 r. był już skradziony. Dlatego obecnie jest chroniony "kratami" oraz stałym monitoringiem.