In which European city is the Manneken Pis statue?

In which European city is the Manneken Pis statue? The answer is Brussels. The small bronze fountain sculpture stands in central Brussels, Belgium, near the Grand-Place. Its name means “Little Pissing Man” in the Brussels dialect and refers to its depiction of a naked boy urinating into a basin.

A statue at the site is documented as early as the fifteenth century, but the best-known bronze version was designed by Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and installed in 1619. The figure is about 55.5 centimetres tall, or roughly 61 centimetres when measured with its base. The statue’s surrounding niche dates from 1770.

Manneken Pis has been stolen and damaged several times, so the original surviving sculpture is kept safely and a copy is displayed at the fountain. A common mix-up is Jeanneke Pis, a later female counterpart installed elsewhere in Brussels in 1987. Manneken Pis is also famous for its wardrobe of hundreds of donated costumes.