This
weekend the city of Brussels hosts the Festival of Folklore, Folklorissimo.
During the festival there will be several events occurring in Vismet and on the
square containing Manneken-Pis, the
landmark bronze sculpture depicting a little naked boy urinating into a
fountain's basin. We visited the famous statue in 2012 during our tour of the
Netherlands and Belgium, but it wasn’t outfitted in such familiar clothes while
we were there!
The
country chosen as the guest of honor this year at Folklorissimo is Latvia! Some of the events taking place over the weekend will be Latvian folk dance
demonstrations, a Latvian crafts show and a sampling of Latvian food and
culture. Little Manneken-Pis (the symbol of Brussels folklore) wears a costume
at big events, and so in honor of Latvia being the guest of honor at
Folklorissimo he will be wearing a new Latvian folk costume. There will also be a
tasting of Latvian beer, served in a most unusual manner; on
special occasions such as this one the fountain is attached to a keg and Manneken-Pis pees beer…
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How very, very interesting Liene...should be a great Festival! Now, if only I could just nip over! Have a wonderful week!
ReplyDeleteThanks for alerting me to this. From some of the photos I've seen online today, it looks like an awesome festival. When I was in Brussels 2 years ago, I visited the city museum which has costumes/outfits he's worn over the years - some nicely displayed, others can just be viewed electronically. A Latvian one was actually on display! Looks awfully similar to this one, although I believe that one was a Riga costume and had been gifted to him on Riga's 800th anniversary.
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