The famous, bronze statue of a young boy urinating in
Brussels, the Manneken-Pis, has had to ‘stop peeing’ because of freezing
temperatures, Reuters has reported.
The tourist office has said they had to cut off the flow of
water to the statue because they were concerned the cold could affect the
internal mechanisms of the statue. "It all depends on the weather, if the
temperatures go up again it will work again," a spokeswoman revealed.
The statue has become a huge tourist attraction, and has
been there since the 1600s. There are more than 800 specially made clothes that
are used to dress it up during the year.
Sourced from: Reuters.
Text by: Priya Pitamber.
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