The Manneken Pis, legend in Brussels.

The most important monument of Brussels is without doubt Manneken Pis. Manneken Pis is a statue of a small boy and is the most visited monument of Brussels. Many people upon seeing Manneken Pis seems them very small but not all the important statues have to be large. (to see hotels in Brussels)




They are many legends that cIRCULATE in Brussels about the Manneken Pis to which the of Brussels also they call Petit Julien. And the fact is that their origins are uncertain. They say that the small one was Godofredo II of Brabante, who with only two years already was the Mister of those magnificent lands of Belgium. (to see hotels in Belgium)

Nevertheless, there were to defend it before the army of the gentlemen of Grimbergen. To the small one they put it in a basket and they hung it of a tree to avoid that passed him nothing, but the boy took advantage of when they passed the enemy soldiers by underneath urinate them on top. Finally, the troops of Grimbergen lost the battle.





A second legend account that being besieged the city of Brussels in the 14th century, they placed some explosive wicks next to the walls of the city. The small one Julien when saw what intended, and taking advantage of a moment of carelessness, approached to the explosives and put out the wick, avoiding thus the invasion of the city. Perhaps the most credible one of all the histories is the one that says that was son of a famous sculptor that was lost and to which subsequently they found urinating in the corner in which today is the sculpture.



Curiously, there is a tradition been connected with the Manneken Pis, and the fact is that in special dates is used to dressing with different motives. Tradition that is maintained since the year 1698 when the emperor Maximiliano Emmanuel gave a robe with the one that to dress it. Since then, the Petit Julien has been dressed of the most unsuspected forms, of such way that its suits now form a collection of almost 700 dresses that are exposed in the museum of the Ville, in the Maison du Roi.