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06.03.2021

Hello, dear readers of the Sprint-Answer website. Today is Saturday, July 1, 2017, and on Channel One you can watch the TV game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".

In this article you can find out all the answers in today's game "Who wants to be a millionaire?" for June 1, 2017 (07/01/2017), a brief overview of the game is printed here.

Visiting Dmitry Dibrov today Larisa Rubalskaya and Anatoly Wasserman. The players chose a fireproof amount of 400,000 rubles. Below are questions and answers in the game, the correct answer, according to the tradition of the Sprint-Answer website, is highlighted in blue in the list of options.

1. Who or what is with me "according to my will" in a children's song?

harbor seal
Forest deer
rotten stump
sheer laziness

2. What answer is traditionally given to the riddle: "In winter and summer in one color"?

Christmas tree
refrigerator
piano
boyarsky hat

3. Who is a ground beetle?

bird
lizard
insect

4. What hairstyle does Jack Sparrow wear in Pirates of the Caribbean?

Iroquois
semi-box
dreadlocks
ponytail

5. What number in Russian lotto was called "stools"?

6. What is the lyrical hero of Yuri Kukin's song chasing after?

behind the dew
beyond the swamp
behind the sunset
beyond the fog

7. What is the name of the main art museum in Munich?

file cabinet
enoteca
pinakothek
library

8. Which city has no subway?

Nizhny Novgorod
Samara
Voronezh
Novosibirsk

9. Who became the main character of the film "Odyssey" directed by Jerome Salle?

Jean Francois de La Perouse
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Thor Heyerdahl
Odysseus

10.What color makeup in Japanese kabuki theater symbolizes strength, courage, justice?

Red
yellow
blue
black

11. How do Panamanian golden frogs communicate?

writing
sign language
infrasound
ultrasound

Unfortunately, on the eleventh question, the participants in the game "Who wants to become a millionaire?" for July 1, 2017 (Larisa Rubalskaya and Anatoly Wasserman) answered incorrectly, they left the game without a win. The place at the table in the studio is occupied by other participants in the TV game: Oleg Mityaev and Viktor Zinchuk. The players chose a fireproof amount of 100,000 rubles. Below are questions and answers in the game, the correct ones are highlighted in blue.

1. What phrase ironically wish good luck?

Flag in your hands!
Feathers for your hat!
I hit you in the teeth!
Sails to your mast!

2. What is the name of Eldar Ryazanov's comedy?

"Barn"
"Garage"
"Hyloft"
"change house"

3. What star is mentioned in the title of Viktor Tsoi's song?

surnamed Luna
nicknamed Vega
patronymic Sirius
by the name of the sun

4. Where do track and field athletes compete in throwing?

in the corner
in the stalls
in the sector
in the ring

5. Which of these is not dishes?

sugar bowl
waffle iron
herring
caviar

6. What time period is mentioned in the title of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's novel?

one hundred hours
one hundred seconds
one hundred days
a hundred years

7. How many players are on the curling team?

8. What European capital stands on the river Bull?

Belgrade
Kishinev
Zagreb
Minsk

9. Who is the monument to whom in the Portuguese town of Sabroz is called "Boy Launching Boats"?

Vasco de Gamay
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Jean Francois de La Perouse

10. Who was the last Nobel laureate from Russia in the 20th century?

In fact, if it weren’t for the crowds of tourists photographing the fountain from all sides, you can easily walk past the Manneken Pis: it is quite tiny and is located, although in the center, but at the corner of the intersection of streets. So what's so special about it?

And Alexandre Dumas became famous, among other things, for the fact that in his notes about a trip to Russia he also wrote about “spreading cranberries”.

In Portugal, cranberries do not grow, but not under the pen of a writer, but in fact quite spreading ... cabbage will be born. Its local variety reaches a height of 3-4 meters.

On a high trunk (what else can you say?) Leaves grow, which are used as food. Of these, for example, they cook the most common soup in the country - caldo verde. This soup, like the "spreading" cabbage itself, is found throughout Portugal, and the Douro Valley is no exception.

But only in the area adjoining the Douro Valley from the north, they make the so-called vinho verde - “green wine”. This young, slightly sparkling wine, despite its name, can be both white and red. (In the Mateusz manor, as I said, they also make pink.)

Moreover, the area of production of "green wines", as well as the area of production of port wine, is strictly limited. And even the cheapest "green wine" (90 cents per liter bottle) has a label indicating the area of its origin.

So northern Portugal is the only place on earth where "red" can be called "green". But the paradoxes of the lands where the Douro flows are not limited to this.

When asked what is the official language in Portugal, everyone will answer - Portuguese. And, of course, he will be right. But only in part.
Few people know that Portugal is now a bilingual country. As a second official language, a dialect was introduced relatively recently, which is common in the Miranda do Douro area, again, near the "wine" river!

This is Mirandesh - archaic Portuguese, close to Spanish. It is spoken by only a few thousand people, but the pan-European norms regarding national minorities have done their job, and now even a newspaper is published in it.

People who speak Mirandesh are called Mirandese. Thanks to centuries of isolation, besides the language, they have preserved other traces of their ancient culture, which makes them... related to the Celts.

The Celts, as you know, made up a significant part of the population of Europe before the time of Roman rule. And in the area where the Mirandese live, men still wear a national costume for the holidays - a skirt, play traditional instruments like bagpipes and perform dances similar to Irish ones.

A great scientific discovery was made in this wilderness in the early 90s. During the construction of a dam on the Koa River, one of the left tributaries of the Douro, ancient rock paintings were found, a whole gallery of the Paleolithic era.

The fact that the images belonged to the era of the early Stone Age, the workers who discovered them, of course, did not know. Yes, and at first, when there was a fuss around the find, someone in the construction company decided that the rock art was the work of ... "greens", who thus tried to stop the construction of a hydraulic structure.

Ho "green" had nothing to do with it. Three years later, UNESCO added the gallery of prehistoric artists to the World Heritage List. The uniqueness and value of this gallery is not only in its scale and in the preservation of images, but also, so to speak, in the longevity of the art school! Paintings continued to be created here in the Neolithic, and even in an era very close to us - the last images on the rocks belong to the son of a local miller, who lived here only a few decades ago.

Work on the gallery continues... Maybe the winemakers, to whom the Douro river owes its main and loudest glory, will leave their mark on it?

At the end of November, I flew from Moscow slush to sunny Portugal. Since he was not rich in time or finances, he managed six cities, three of them have equestrian monuments. In general, Portugal, like any European country with a deep history, loves monuments, but incomparably less than in neighboring France and Spain, but still those that fall into today's review are not the only ones. There are other cities that I have not yet reached.

So... Portugal

Lisbon

Monument to King José I

Located on the banks of the Tagus River, Praça do Comercio, also known as the Palace Square: previously there was a luxurious Ribeira Palace. Unfortunately, it suffered the fate of many of the majestic structures of Portugal when a terrible earthquake shook the country in 1755. It reduced the ruins of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and was one of the most destructive and deadly earthquakes in history, claiming the lives of about 80,000 people in 6 minutes. The seismic shocks were followed by a fire and a tsunami, which caused especially a lot of trouble due to the coastal location of Lisbon.

King José I, who ruled at that time, entrusted the restoration of the city to his Prime Minister Sebastian Pombal, who rebuilt the square in the spirit of the Enlightenment. The royal palace was not restored, and the square itself received a regular, symmetrical shape.

In the center of the square there is an equestrian monument erected in 1775 to the reformer King José I. An equestrian statue rises on a high marble pedestal. The king is depicted in armor, and his horse symbolically tramples snakes under his hooves. In 1770, an international competition was held to create a statue of King José I, according to the drawings of Eugenio dos Santos. Work on the bronze sculpture was entrusted to the most famous architect of that era - Joaquim Machado de Castro. During the five years of work on the statue, the sculptor tried to improve the original project. The creation of the statue of King José I was a turning point in the life of Joaquim Machado de Castro, it was after this that he became a court sculptor.

Monument to King Juan I

One of the famous attractions of Lisbon is Praça da Figueira. If you believe the urban legends of Lisbon, then this amazing place got its name from a fig tree that grew in this place many centuries ago. Figueira Square in Lisbon can be called a city within a city. Previously, the square housed a covered market, which was demolished in 1949.

The monument erected in 1971 to Juan I, nicknamed the Great, as well as Bastard, the king of Portugal and the Algarve, who laid the foundation for the Avis dynasty, is definitely worth mentioning as an attraction of the square. He is famous for having withstood the five-month blockade of Lisbon, defeated the Castilians and defended the independence of Portugal.

The sculpture by the architect Leopoldo de Almeida depicted the monarch on horseback. In 1999-2000, the monument was moved from the middle of the square to its corner for better view. Today, near the monument to João I, book fairs and all kinds of traveling temporary exhibitions are held.

Porto

Monument to Don Pedro IV

The monument to Don Pedro IV is located in the city of Porto, on Praça da Liberdadi (Freedom Square), not far from the Clerigos Tower, which is the symbol of the city. It was created by the French sculptor Anatoly Celestino and inaugurated in October 1866.

The monument is an equestrian statue of Don Pedro IV - the first king of Brazil and Portugal. The bronze sculpture, which weighs almost five thousand kilograms, is mounted on a massive marble pedestal, decorated with bas-reliefs "The Landing of Mindelo" and "Rejection of the Heart", made of black marble. The total height of the monument is ten meters. The image of the king is reflected majestically - the ruler is dressed in a cocked hat and military uniform, and in his hands is the Constitutional Charter of 1826.

Monument to Vimarano Perez

Vimara's origin is unknown. Obviously, his father's name was Pedro or Pero. Some later genealogies identified him with Pedro Tikhon, great-grandson of Alphonse I of Asturias, but there are no documents from the 9th century to confirm this. Vimara was a vassal of the king of Asturias, Alphonse III the Great. The king sent him to the southwestern regions of the country to ensure their protection from the Moors.

In 868, Vimara invaded the lands belonging to the Emirate of Cordoba between the Minho and Duero rivers and captured the fortress of Portucale (modern Porto). With the consent of Alfonso III, a county was formed on the conquered lands, which received the name of Portugal from the name of the captured fortress. Vimara later founded a walled city named after him Vimaranish (modern Guimarães). There he died in 873.

In 1968, in Porto, on the 1000th anniversary of the occupation of the city, a three-meter bronze statue of Vimare Peresu, created by the sculptor Salvador Barata Feyo, was installed in front of the Cathedral.

Monument to King João VI

Joao (John) VI lived in the 19th century. He was the second King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve. His political activity began with the fact that he became regent for his mentally ill mother. João VI stayed in Brazil in 1807, where he fled with all his court and treasury from the French, and ruled here until 1812, but was forced to leave Brazil to his son and returned back to Portugal. In 1825 he recognized the independence of Brazil.

Monument to King Juan VI, erected in 1966, in the suburbs of Porto Nevozilde on the Praça de Gonzalves Zarque square, on the Atlantic Ocean embankment. The author of the sculpture is the famous Portuguese sculptor Salvador Barata Feyo.

By the way, there is a similar sculpture in Rio de Janeiro, donated to the city by the government of Portugal in 1965.

Braga

Monument to Saint Longinus the Centurion

Bom Jesus Do Monte (Church of the good Jesus on the mountain) is located near the city of Braga, in northern Portugal. This sanctuary, built on a slope with a height of 564 m, is one of the most famous places of pilgrimage, the second most popular after Fatima. It is a whole complex of the church, the famous baroque staircase of 581 steps rising to 116 meters, and a large park. The staircase ends at Terreiro de Moixes Square, decorated with an equestrian statue of Saint Longinus the Centurion.

The centurion Gaius Cassius Longinus was one of the Roman soldiers present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and it was he who pierced Jesus' side with a spear, giving him deliverance from torment. Later he became a great martyr, being beheaded by order of Pontius Pilate. In folk tradition, the saint is revered for helping to find lost things and helping to cure eye diseases.

The author is the sculptor Pedro José Luis. The sculpture was installed in 1819. Made from local granite, and the only equestrian sculpture in Portugal made entirely of stone. The statue stands on a high pedestal. Saint Longinus, dressed in knightly armor, is depicted sitting on his faithful horse.

On the feast of St. John, there is a tradition: young girls go around the pedestal of the statue in order to get married faster.

Any advertising brochure about Belgium or about Brussels will invariably contain a picture of a Manneken Pis statue - it is this fountain (a naked boy spurting a stream into a small pool) that is the main attraction of the country. In fact, if it weren’t for the crowds of tourists photographing the fountain from all sides, you can easily walk past the Manneken Pis: it is quite tiny and is located, although in the center, but at the corner of the intersection of streets. So what's so special about it?

Now, of course, especially during the tourist season, it is almost impossible to pass by this fountain: despite the fact that it is fenced and you can’t get close to Manneken Pis, there will always be a lot of city guests and souvenir sellers around. Copies of Manneken Pis are made of chocolate, caramel, metal and plastic, in the form of a corkscrew and in the form of a key ring, his image is printed on T-shirts, caps and bags. Manneken Pis is now a real Belgian brand.

When exactly the first statue of Manneken Pis appeared is not known for certain. But the one that can be seen today was cast in 1619 by Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder. Later, the statue was stolen several times (the last time the statue was stolen in the 1960s), so the Belgian authorities had to do exactly the same as the Danish with the Little Mermaid - a copy of the statue was installed in the city center, and the original was securely hidden.

However, there is a version that a similar fountain stood at this place long before 1619, possibly even from 1388. There are two versions of why this statue was created at all. According to the first version, the boy depicts the son of Gottfried III of Leuven, whose cradle was hung high on a tree in 1142 during the decisive battle of the Grimbergen War. The kid was supposed to inspire the troops with his appearance and tease the enemy, and, according to legend, during the battle, the kid wrote from above on the fighting warriors.

The second legend dates back to the 14th century, when Brussels was under siege, and the enemy was about to penetrate the walls of the city, placing explosives under the fortification. A boy named Yulianske saw this and, not knowing what else to do, simply urinated on the explosive and put out the fuse, and thus saved the entire city.

There are less pretentious stories of the appearance of the statue. One of them, for example, tells of a wealthy visiting merchant whose son ran away and disappeared while they were visiting Brussels. All forces were thrown into the search for the boy, and indeed, the boy was found. He was discovered just at the moment when he was writing in the garden, suspecting nothing. The joyful merchant, according to legend, was so glad that his heir was alive and well that he decided to erect an entire fountain in honor of his son.

The fourth legend is similar to the previous one, only instead of a rich merchant, a local woman lost her son, and in a panic she began to run and ask every passer-by if they had seen her son, even pestering the mayor of the city. After a long search, the boy was found urinating on a street corner.

One way or another, since then, a whole tradition has formed around the statue to change the boy's outfits. Although the baby is small in size, you definitely cannot find another such fashionista among the statues. Now Manneken Pis has several hundred outfits, a dress calendar, and even special Manneken Pis Friends who are responsible for changing clothes on time.

Near the fountain in the central square of the city in the Royal Museum there is an exposition of Manneken Pis costumes, which has more than 800 outfits. At the beginning of each year, dates and outfits for the statue are approved, and Friends make sure that all outfits are put on on time and safely sent to the museum afterwards.

It is believed that the first costume for a boy was sent by the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian-Emmanuel in 1698, and these clothes can also be seen in the Museum, but the main part of the exposition, of course, gathered during the 20th century. Every time a boy is dressed, it happens in a solemn atmosphere, accompanied by a playing orchestra.

Pissing Boy is often dressed in national costumes of other nations, but sometimes you can also see just funny outfits on him, like the outfit of Dracula or Santa Claus. But, perhaps, no costume causes such a stir among the public as when the water in the fountain is replaced with beer or wine. Then the Friends of the Manneken Pis fill the glasses directly with the spray emitted by the Boy and distribute them free of charge to passers-by.

The history of the statue of the Little Mermaid, which is installed in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, can be read in our article "."

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Hello, dear readers of the Sprint-Answer website. Today is Saturday, July 1, 2017, and on Channel One you can watch the TV game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?".

In this article you can find out all the answers in today's game "Who wants to be a millionaire?" for June 1, 2017 (07/01/2017), a brief overview of the game is printed here.

1. Who or what is with me "according to my will" in a children's song?

harbor seal
Forest deer
rotten stump
sheer laziness

2. What answer is traditionally given to the riddle: "In winter and summer in one color"?

Christmas tree
refrigerator
piano
boyarsky hat

3. Who is a ground beetle?

bird
lizard
insect

4. What hairstyle does Jack Sparrow wear in Pirates of the Caribbean?

Iroquois
semi-box
dreadlocks
ponytail

5. What number in Russian lotto was called "stools"?

6. What is the lyrical hero of Yuri Kukin's song chasing after?

behind the dew
beyond the swamp
behind the sunset
beyond the fog

7. What is the name of the main art museum in Munich?

file cabinet
enoteca
pinakothek
library

8. Which city has no subway?

Nizhny Novgorod
Samara
Voronezh
Novosibirsk

9. Who became the main character of the film "Odyssey" directed by Jerome Salle?

Jean Francois de La Perouse
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Thor Heyerdahl
Odysseus

10.What color makeup in Japanese kabuki theater symbolizes strength, courage, justice?

Red
yellow
blue
black

11. How do Panamanian golden frogs communicate?

writing
sign language
infrasound
ultrasound

1. What phrase ironically wish good luck?

Flag in your hands!
Feathers for your hat!
I hit you in the teeth!
Sails to your mast!

2. What is the name of Eldar Ryazanov's comedy?

"Barn"
"Garage"
"Hyloft"
"change house"

3. What star is mentioned in the title of Viktor Tsoi's song?

surnamed Luna
nicknamed Vega
patronymic Sirius
by the name of the sun

4. Where do track and field athletes compete in throwing?

in the corner
in the stalls
in the sector
in the ring

5. Which of these is not dishes?

sugar bowl
waffle iron
herring
caviar

6. What time period is mentioned in the title of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's novel?

one hundred hours
one hundred seconds
one hundred days
a hundred years

7. How many players are on the curling team?

8. What European capital stands on the river Bull?

Belgrade
Kishinev
Zagreb
Minsk

9. Who is the monument to whom in the Portuguese town of Sabroz is called "Boy Launching Boats"?

Vasco de Gamay
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Jean Francois de La Perouse

10. Who was the last Nobel laureate from Russia in the 20th century?

Alexey Abrikosov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Andrey Sakharov
Zhores Alferov

11. In what case do they "take reefs" on a sailboat?

when disembarking
in the absence of wind
in strong wind
with a leak in the hold

12. In which movie did James Bond officially get married?

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
"License to Kill"
"Tomorrow never dies"
"For Your Eyes Only"

13. What term was coined in 1917 by Guillaume Apollinaire's review of the ballet Parade?

Dadaism
futurism
surrealism

The players prudently refused to answer the thirteenth question and took the winnings of 400,000 rubles.

Historians cannot say exactly when the sculpture of the boy was created. There are only suggestions that the figurine already existed at the end of the 14th - beginning of the 15th century. The event to which the installation of the statue was timed is also controversial. Some researchers believe that it is intended to remind of the Grimbergen War of the 12th century, while others claim that the purpose of creating and installing a bronze sculpture was to remind the inhabitants of the city of a certain boy who once managed to extinguish enemy ammunition with a stream of urine.

It is reliably known that the sculptor who brought the statue to the form in which we are accustomed to seeing it was Jerome Duquesnoy. He completed his work in 1619. At the same time, the fountain was put into operation. Today, the monument has been preserved in the form in which it was installed in its place in the 17th century: it is a bronze figurine of a naked boy who urinates into the bowl of the fountain. The height of the figure is 61 centimeters.

The fame of the sculpture became for her big problem. Since the end of the 17th century, the statue has been stolen by intruders more than once. In this regard, it had to be replaced with an exact copy. The extreme theft of the landmark occurred at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century. After this incident, attempts to steal the monument have not yet been made.

Fountain outfits

An interesting tradition has developed around the monument - to dress the Manneken Pis in various outfits. But this is by no means a fad of recent decades. This ritual originated at the end of the 17th century. According to historical data, the baby's first outfit appeared thanks to the elector, or otherwise the imperial prince, Maximilian-Emmanuel of Bavaria. He sent a suit, in which they clothed the statue. Half a century later, the French king, in an effort to make amends for the theft of the statue by soldiers of his army, gave the bronze baby another outfit. Since then, each dressing up of a bronze baby has become a real solemn ceremony. Honored guests of Brussels are invited to take part in it, and the whole process is accompanied by the playing of a whole brass band. The sculpture changes outfits during the month. You can find out what the monument will wear in the next 30 days from the list of costumes, which is prepared and hung on the fence of the sculpture by a special organization called "Friends of Manneken Pis".

The dress of the statue is often chosen for various events and upcoming holidays. So, for example, the boy has already performed in the form of Santa Claus, Dracula and Elvis Presley, put on the uniform of a military man and a sailor, dressed in a spacesuit and a judo uniform. All the costumes in which the bronze boy has already appeared before the public are not sent anywhere, but to the Royal Museum, located nearby. Today, the exhibition has about 800 outfits.

How to get there

The fountain is located at the crossroads of Rue de l'Etuve and Rue du Chêne. Focusing on this address, finding the statue is quite simple - it is always quite crowded in front of it. You can get to Etuve Street by city buses following routes No. 48 and 95. Part of their path runs along Lombard Street, on which the necessary Grand-Place stop is located. You can also take trams 3, 4, 32 and get off at the Anneessens stop. But in this case, the path to the monument, which will have to be overcome on foot, will be a little longer. Brussels Central Station is also not too far away, which is a big plus for those who have just arrived in the city and immediately decided to look around.

Fountain on the map

The sculpture of the Manneken Pis has entered the life of the city so tightly that it is an important element and participant in all city events. So, it has become a long tradition to serve not water, but wine or beer into the fountain on the days of celebrations and holidays.
The thefts of the monument are also an integral part of the history of Brussels. They happened so many times that they even became the plot of the movie. In 1913, the French director Alfred Machin made a short 8-minute film about the pursuit of a thief who is trying to escape with the treasured prey.

At least two more sculptures with a similar plot have been installed in the Belgian capital. They represent Pissing Girl and Pissing Dog. And in the French Colmar there is a sculpture with the same plot. It can be argued that this is an exact copy of the boy in Brussels. The monument was presented to Colmar and its inhabitants personally by the mayor of the Belgian capital in 1922.
Rumor has it that sometimes at night unknown people dress up the boy in their costumes. However, due to the fact that these outfits do not correspond to the official list, they are immediately removed from the sculpture.

The figure of Manneken Pis is one of the first associations that come to mind when thinking about Brussels. In addition, this is one of the smallest sculptures with great worldwide fame. It's worth seeing for that alone. In addition, the fountain gives the opportunity to be a spectator of the unique ceremony of dressing a bronze baby in another new outfit. So official and regulated on the one hand, and as funny as the sculpture itself, on the other.

It is not known exactly when Manneken Pis, as the people of Brussels call it, originated. But on this occasion, many legends have been composed, and among them, perhaps, a true story has been wormed its way. The most fabulous of them tells about a naughty who was not ashamed to relieve himself right on the porch of the house owned by a fairy. The hostess, of course, was very angry and turned the baby into a statue so that he would write forever.

There is also a patriotic version that tells about a boy who saw how the enemies laid out shells near the city and lit the fuses, and who was able to put them out with the help of ... his own strength, and thus became a city hero, they decided to immortalize the memory of his feat in a statue with a fountain .

There is a legend about father's love. Allegedly, a local merchant was walking with his son along the city streets, but he got lost. They searched for the little boy, but still could not find him, the father was already completely exhausted and lost hope. Suddenly, his son was found at the intersection of Oak and Bannaya streets, when he was urinating. Happy dad could not restrain his emotions and decided to erect a monument at the place where he could reunite with his son. Since then, he has been standing here.

The next version tells about Duke Gottfried, who was attacked by his own vassals. The battle with the rebels was hard, the duke's soldiers completely lost heart and at that moment Gottfried's servant ran to his master, shouting that his son had relieved himself. This episode was so ordinary and comical that the soldiers instantly perked up, shouting "Manneken Pis". Having received the detente they needed, the soldiers rushed into battle and won.

Most researchers believe that the pissing boy was created by the sculptor Jerome Duquesnoy - the father. But who was the customer, they can not say. The most probable year of the creation of the monument is 1619, although there are earlier dates, for example, 1388. Although most scholars assume that earlier sculptures of the pissing boy could exist, they are sure that the Brussels naughty acquired its modern look precisely in 1619, thanks to Duquesnoy.

Traditions

Manneken Pis himself and the fountain in which he relieves himself have acquired many traditions over the years of their existence. One of the main ones is the regular change of Julien's clothes. That is the name of the famous naughty. He has already changed a myriad of outfits. And not everyone can dress up a pissing boy in clothes. Changing his wardrobe is a whole event, and clothes for him are carefully selected. Usually they are donated by famous or authoritative personalities. Julien often wears the national costumes of countries friendly to Belgium.

It is said that the beginning of the tradition was laid by the Elector of Bavaria in 1698. Apparently, he was the first to want to dress up a naked boy, and Louis XV followed him, who did not stint on an outfit of golden brocade for the statue. After that, things got better. Now, not a single famous fashion designer will refuse to sew clothes for the fashionist Julien.

There were so many outfits that a museum had to be opened for them next to the pissing boy himself. Previously, the clothes were in the Brussels Historical Museum, but now, apparently, they do not fit there. By the way, Julien wears clothes of different professions, for example, on April 12 he was an astronaut.

Another tradition is that on holidays, not water, but real beer or cider is let out of Julien's “faucet”. Thus, those who happened to be near the fountain can try drinks for free and celebrate the celebration with the people of Brussels.

The city loves its symbol very much, and this love is sometimes excessive. Apparently, for this reason, the statue was stolen more than once, and now the pissing boy is no longer the original, but just a copy. And so that the baby would not be lonely, the townspeople created a statue of a pissing girl and even a dog. So Julien is not bored now.

How to get there

Pissing Boy is located in Brussels near the Grand Place, at the intersection of Banna and Oak streets (Rue de l "Étuve / Stoofstraat and Rue du Chêne / Eikstraat).