gentle and sad tale of the Little Mermaid, which lost votes for the love of a handsome prince, of course, everyone knows.However, the fact that the heroine of the story is a monument, not much is known.Moreover, there is a monument to the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen is not only the capital of the homeland of the great storyteller.Only here the other sea beauties inspired sculptors, have no relation to famed Andersen legend.Who are they - the mysterious mermaids, immortalized in stone and metal, where they live, and why it was given this honor?
Little Mermaid monument in Denmark: a fabulous symbol of the country
Anyone who has ever been in the Copenhagen harbor at the waterfront langelinie, had the opportunity to admire their own eyes on the main character of one of the most famous tales of Andersen.Bronze Beauty, Little Mermaid sad sitting on a basalt boulder jutting out of the water.Clutching a sprig of algae, she looks wistfully into the distance, longing for his unrequited love.
Monument to the fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" is a symbol of Copenhagen and all the Danish kingdom.Danes solemnly celebrate his birthday by arranging on the waterfront festivities and decorating sculpture wreaths of flowers.It is like to be photographed against the backdrop of the Little Mermaid and many tourists - Beauty is always in the spotlight.Unfortunately, it does not bypass the party and vandals Monument repeatedly doused with paint, to saw off individual parts of it, and even dressed in Muslim clothing.However, every time the Little Mermaid lovingly restored and given proper form.
history of the Danish Little Mermaid
Mermaid monument in Denmark was established in 1913, after seventy-six years after it was written tale.Produce bronze daughter of the sea king master Edward Eriksen, and the customer of this extraordinary sculpture was Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of the famous Danish brewery "Carlsberg".According to legend, Jacobsen was passionately in love with the prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet, the beautiful Juliet Price, but she did not answer his feelings.He ordered Erichsen Little Mermaid monument, made it a condition that the model will be his Juliet.However dancer refused to pose, and then a sculptor, without thinking twice, carved Mermaid, looking at his own wife.Having made an order, Carl Jacobsen presented a beautiful statue to his hometown.
Ever since the sad sea princess thoughtfully sits on a rock a meter away from the capital's waterfront, defenseless and touching in her tremulous beauty.
Little Mermaid monument in Crimea: the legend of the stolen beauty
on the southern coast of Crimea, in the water, right by the waterfront of a small village Mishor, among the waves stopped, leaning on a rock, a mermaid holding a baby.This sculpture embodies one of the oldest Crimean legends - about a beautiful Tatar girl Arza, who on the eve of her wedding kidnapped and taken away to Istanbul wily robber Ali Baba.In Turkey, he got into the beauty of the harem of the Sultan.Her holili and nurtured, but it languished in his eyes, longing for her lover, the abandoned back in his native land.Even the birth of his son did not save Arzy from mental anguish.Seizing the moment, she and the baby jumped from the tower into the cold waters of the Bosphorus ... The same evening on the coast Miskhorsky people noticed a mermaid out of the water.In the hands of She had a small child.The sad mermaid stared at the village, which once lived Arzy, sat at her favorite fountain and then just quietly drifted back into the sea.Since then, every year on that day, when she was kidnapped by a beautiful Tatar, Mermaid with the baby appears on the beach and loved the fountain Arzy begins to flow more strongly.
How did the Mermaid in Mishor?
vacationing in the Crimea at the beginning of the last century, the legend heard the sad Tatar Estonian sculptor Amandus Adamson.She was so inspired by the masters, they at their own expense were created and installed two sculptures: carved in stone woman Arzy and robber Ali Baba said some in the tradition of the legendary fountain, as well as a monument to the Little Mermaid in the sea on the promenade of Mishor.
famous Little Mermaid of Warsaw: the legendary defender of city
Poland - another country where the Little Mermaid monument has become a symbol of the capital, and even depicted on its coat of arms.In fact, in Warsaw, the three groups of sculptures depicting sea beauties.The most famous mermaid with sword and shield stands in the middle of the famous Old Town Market.The second monument can be found in Sventokshizhskogo bridge over the Vistula.The third is on the viaduct on the street cars.
According to legend, once a mermaid floating on the sea near the Old City, out of the water, wanting to relax.She so loved this place that she decided to stay.Fishermen, who live nearby, were initially angry that someone constantly confuses their networks and unleashes a fish, but he heard the mermaids singing, replaced by anger at the mercy and did not disturb her.And when the mermaid accidentally saw a rich merchant strolling in these places, insidiously he kidnapped her and imprisoned in a wooden shed, the son of one of the fishermen with their friends helped her break free and escape.In gratitude, the mermaid gave fishermen a word that always rise to their defense when they are in need.Since then, the Little Mermaid monument in Warsaw regularly stands guard the city and its inhabitants.
Israeli mermaid from Kiryat Yam: in search of sensation
In the suburbs of the Israeli city of Haifa, Kiryat Yam, too, not so long ago was a monument to the Little Mermaid.Marine beauty chastely covering their nakedness, reclines in a huge shell on the pedestal in the center of the pedestrian promenade.
This sculpture appeared in Kiryat Yam in connection with the rumors, which every day becomes more and more: that in the sea near the coast of the city has repeatedly been seen real mermaid ...
In search of sensation in the town constantly visited by journalists, but to confirm the rumorsyet no one has managed - however, as to refute.So mysterious look Mermaids from Kiryat Yam once again attracted the attention of tourists to the mystery, anyway associated with this town.
