{"id":12475,"date":"2025-12-20T23:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:05:45","slug":"manneken-pis-bruxelles-belgique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/belgium\/brussels\/manneken-pis-brussels-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Manneken Pis, Bruxelles, Belgique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manneken Pis is a historic fountain statue located in the center of Brussels, Belgium. Created in bronze, it represents a small boy standing over a basin and has become an enduring symbol of the city\u2019s playful and unconventional character. Although the statue is only 55.5 cm tall, it holds great cultural importance and is one of the most visited attractions in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fountain figure is recorded on this street corner as early as the 15th century, and the present bronze was made by the sculptor J\u00e9r\u00f4me Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619. Over the centuries, the statue has been damaged, stolen, replaced, and restored multiple times, reflecting the turbulent history of the city. Since 1965 a replica has stood at the fountain, while the original is kept in the Brussels City Museum in the Maison du Roi on the Grand-Place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De nombreuses l\u00e9gendes entourent le Manneken Pis, expliquant sa signification et son origine. L&#039;une d&#039;elles raconte l&#039;histoire d&#039;un jeune gar\u00e7on qui sauva la ville en \u00e9teignant une m\u00e8che allum\u00e9e avec son urine, tandis qu&#039;une autre le d\u00e9crit comme le fils d&#039;une famille noble retrouv\u00e9 dans la m\u00eame position apr\u00e8s s&#039;\u00eatre \u00e9gar\u00e9. Ces r\u00e9cits contribuent au statut mythique et au charme de la statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Une tradition propre au Manneken-Pis est son immense garde-robe d\u2019environ 1 000 costumes, des tenues nationales et folkloriques aux uniformes et aux cr\u00e9ations humoristiques. Les jours de f\u00eate et lors d\u2019occasions sp\u00e9ciales, la statue est habill\u00e9e d\u2019un costume th\u00e9matique, et depuis 2017 les costumes sont expos\u00e9s au mus\u00e9e GardeRobe MannekenPis, \u00e0 quelques pas dans la m\u00eame rue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aujourd&#039;hui, le Manneken Pis demeure une ic\u00f4ne culturelle embl\u00e9matique et un lieu de rencontre pris\u00e9 des touristes explorant le centre historique de Bruxelles. Il incarne l&#039;ironie, la r\u00e9silience et la joie de vivre propres \u00e0 la ville, ce qui en fait une \u00e9tape incontournable pour les visiteurs d\u00e9sireux de d\u00e9couvrir la culture belge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" data-id=\"12477\" src=\"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"Le petit Manneken-Pis en bronze dans sa niche de pierre sculpt\u00e9e, \u00e0 un coin de rue de Bruxelles\" class=\"wp-image-12477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Manneken-Pis-1-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le petit gar\u00e7on de bronze qui fait pipi, haut de 55,5 cm seulement : une copie orne la fontaine, l\u2019original de 1619 est au Mus\u00e9e de la Ville et ses 1 000 costumes au GardeRobe.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1063,977,1062],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels","category-architecture","category-belgium"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}