Denmark’s Little Mermaid
I started writing about mermaid statues around the world about 10 years ago, creating pages and writing blogs about each of the…
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I started writing about mermaid statues around the world about 10 years ago, creating pages and writing blogs about each of the…
Read More →The Big Mermaid was commissioned by Danish restaurateur Peter Bech and installed in 2006. Bech commissioned it from China, carved in granite.…
Read More →The mermaid in Linlithgow is a sculpture dating back to 1537, when King James V of Scotland commissioned the 16 foot “King’s…
Read More →This mermaid in the town of Èze on the French Riviera is walking amongst us humans, carrying her mermaid skin and tail…
Read More →You will find eight mermaids of Edinburgh in Ross Fountain, in the Princes Street Gardens. The location is magnificent, with the lush…
Read More →This Rhine River mermaid is dorsal-finned and unusual in many ways. She is stunningly austere and ascetic, seemingly adapted perfectly to the…
Read More →The city of Mainz in Germany has this fabulous sculpture if the “Fishwife” mermaid. It is tucked into a corner where the…
Read More →You will find a gorgeous statue of Hafmeyjan – icelandic for mermaid – on a granite block in Reykjavik. It has been…
Read More →This incredible sculpture of the mermaid Atlante in Port Canto in the famous French city of Cannes was created by Amaryllis. It…
Read More →The fairy tale of the mermaid Undine is immortalized in the Undine Fountain and its sculpture of Undine and the other characters…
Read More →There is a direct connection between Christopher Columbus and this mermaid sculpture on the north coast of Spain – the Sirena Magdalena.…
Read More →The mermaid sculpture ‘Sirena de Coruña” sits on the edge of Ensenada del Orzán (Bay of Orzán) in the city of A…
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