Manneken Pis. Rue de l'Etuve, 46 Rue du Chêne corner. <M> Bourse. This bronze statue of just 30 centimeters of a naked boy peeing in a fountain is the symbol of the city. Sculpted by Jerome Duquesnoy in 1619, underwent several attempts at looting in later centuries until finally in 1960 managed to steal it, but was recovered poseriormente. To preserve it, now showing a bronze copy, and the original lies in the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles. Several legends place its origin, some say that the son of a duke began to urinate in the middle of a battle that ended up winning the statue and enshrined this military courage, others say a boy named Juliaanske saw dynamite placed in the walls and before the fuse detonated the charge, got up urinating thus stopping the explosion and saving the city from a conquest. Any way whatsoever today is a myth and has more than 800 different costumes belonging to all cultures and nations. These include, for example, costumes of various Spanish regions, a bullfighter, the Cid, Barça and Madrid, and even Vilafranca castellers of the brotherhood of the Brotherhood of Faith Crusaders dressed in the costume THE National Day of Catalonia.