The emblem of Brussels is of course the Menneken Pis. We got the opportunity to see it on 2 different days, so we got to see it clothed and unclothed. Peeing both times of course. Sadly, we weren't there when it was peeing biere, which we understand he does a couple times a year.
For all the hype, he is surprisingly small. Evidently this is also not the original Manneken Pis. There have been a couple over the past several hundred years. The current statue is made of Bronze.Tony and I went to the museum where they keep his over 700 outfits. There is a special organization that rotates his different outfits daily, and sometimes twice daily.
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