Boy peeing fountain

Description:On that occasion, the following passage from the Bible was inscribed above its head: On special occasions, brass-bands would play here and Manneken Pis would be hooked up to different flavours of Belgian beer , which is poured from his fountain tip and given out to the public. There was, at the time middle of the 15th century, perhaps as early as , a similar statue made of stone. The only representations of this first statue can be found, very schematically, in a painting by Denis Van Alsloot , representing the Brussels' Ommegang of and in a preparatory drawing to this painting. During this time, the column supporting the statue and the double rectangular basin collecting water were completely remodeled by Daniel Raessens. In , the troops of this two-year-old lord were battling against the troops of the Berthouts, the lords of Grimbergen , in Ransbeke now Neder-Over-Heembeek. With such love and care for the peeing boy, who needs Big Ben?

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