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Video: Overview of outlandish monuments from around the world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nothing adorns a person like a sincere and kind smile. And nothing decorates the city like clean well-groomed streets, beautiful architecture and unusual monuments. No, not to the leaders of the proletariat, and not as a sign of the victory of communism, socialism and other Soviet "isms." And kind, good monuments with a share, and often - a lion's share of humor, which will give a good mood to the guests of the city, and a reason for pride - the old residents. And our today's overview dedicated to just such, humorous, unusual, outlandish monumentslocated in various parts of the world.
Ukrainian monuments
By the number of unusual monuments, the resort town is in the lead in Ukraine Berdyansk … It is here on the embankment that you can see the monument to the breadwinner goby, and the monument to the plumber Mikha, leaning out of the well, and the monument dedicated to the villagers who collect Colorado beetles … And relatively recently, another funny monument dedicated to the Toad that crushes was erected in the city.
And in another Ukrainian city, Vinnitsa, there is a monument to the key to the apartment, where the money is. With pointers to those cities where the great industrialist Ostap Bender was lucky enough to visit.
Russian monuments
It is difficult to say which of the Russian cities is the richest in unusual monuments. And if you collect them into one category, you get an exceptionally long list, which only the most diligent reader will be able to view. So here are just some of the wonders that can be seen walking the streets of this or that city of our Motherland.
For example, in Moscow in 2005, opposite the entrance to the Karat plant, which produces processed cheese, a monument to the Druzhba processed cheese was erected.
In Krasnodar on the square lies a huge monument in the form of a wallet. And right next to the building of the business center.
And in the city of Zheleznovodsk, in the resort of Caucasian Mineral Waters, the world's first monument to … an enema was opened. So if suddenly someone is lucky enough to visit the Mashuk-Aquatherm sanatorium, he will surely see this one and a half meter whopper weighing almost half a ton.
And in Yakutsk there is another curious monument demonstrating the well-known proverb "Do not cut the branch on which you are sitting."
Probably the only cartoon monument in the world is (well, or was for some time) in the center of St. Petersburg, not far from the Pushkin monument, well-known to local residents. This is a gift from an Italian sculptor, made according to sketches by the Italian artist Giakovitti.
Foreign monuments
As can be judged from the photo above, talented architects from non-CIS countries are also not deprived of a sense of humor and a passion for entertainment. So not a single currency …
And here is a good example of how much joy one funny monument in the city square can give people. These stove-benches, or rather, "laughter benches" (play on words: "shop" can also mean "trade stall") can be seen in Germany on the market square of Flensburg.
The Public Wallet Monument, located in the Australian city of Melbourne, is very similar to the same wallet from Krasnodar. True, in Australia, sculptors laid their creation in front of the former building of the city's main post office, converted into a shopping center with expensive boutiques and other shops.
A strange monument is located in Oslo. I don’t know what the authors of the monument wanted to say, but here we clearly see violence against children, namely, a stone bruiser, throwing children away like soccer balls …
Seoul city shops … Or a monument to magicians-dentists?
A huge (12 meters and 18 tons) bronze finger, installed in one of the suburbs of Paris, surely assures the townspeople that everything will be healthy. A thumb is a thumb, and we all know what a raised thumb means.
There is a monument to a clothespin in the American city of Philadelphia. Legend has it that the monument was erected by a wealthy man who made a fortune in the production and sale of these useful little things in the household. But in fact, the clothespin is nothing more than an innocent prank that the sculptor Klaus Oldenburg succeeded in back in 1976. The sculptor just decided to have some fun, and as a result, the city was adorned with such a shocking 15-meter sculpture.
And finally - another joke monument, which is called "The Joke on the Policeman", and this funny miracle is located in the capital of Belgium, Brussels.
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