Stork Fountain, København
Bronze storks poised for flight above a carved basin, gifted for a royal silver wedding anniversary.
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This guide to the Stork Fountain in Copenhagen moves between two very different scenes at the same spot: late-1960s protesters facing down riot police on Strøget, and the fountain's origin as an 1894 wedding gift to Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Louise. It follows sculptor Vilhelm Bissen's bronze storks and the four figures beneath them representing painting, sculpture, architecture and craft. You'll also hear about the Danish folklore tradition that still brings newly graduated midwives here to dance.
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