Tourist attraction
Brückenaffe
Bronze baboon holding out a mirror by a medieval bridge gate, rubbed by visitors for luck.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Brückenaffe, the bronze bridge monkey beside the Old Bridge gate in Heidelberg, starts with the small mirror in his hand and the passers-by who rub it for prosperity. It reaches back to a stone monkey first recorded here in fourteen eighty-one, a rival bishopric across the river, and a seventeenth-century verse that talks back to anyone who stares. Stand close enough to touch the mirror.
This audio guide was created using AI.