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Manneken Pis (pronounced [ˌmɑnəkə(m) ˈpɪs] ⓘ; Dutch for 'Little Pissing Man') is a landmark [1] 55.5 cm (21.9 in) [a] bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens; a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin.
The Grand-Place of Brussels is the location of the city's Town Hall, and thus its political centre. It also housed the largest marketplace in the city (hence its official names Grote Markt or Groote Markt , pronounced [ˌɣroːtə ˈmɑr(ə)kt] ⓘ ; literally meaning "Big Market", in Dutch).
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (French: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958; Dutch: Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958. [1]
The first sites to be added to the list were the Flemish Béguinages, the Grand-Place in Brussels and the lifts on the Canal du Centre, at the 22nd UNESCO session in 1998. [4] The most recent inscriptions were the Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) , a transnational site shared with France.
Jeanneke Pis (pronounced [ˌʑɑnəkə ˈpɪs]; Dutch for 'Little Pissing Joan') is a modern fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium.It was commissioned by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 as a counterpoint to the city's famous Manneken Pis.
The building is located on the Square de l'Atomium / Atomiumsquare, [1] [7] at the intersection of the Boulevard du Centenaire / Eeuwfeestlaan with the Avenue de l'Atomium / Atomiumlaan and the Avenue de Bouchout / Boechoutlaan, and opposite the Centenary Palace of the Brussels Exhibition Centre (Brussels Expo).