I think Milton Keynes started it all with their concrete cows:
BBC - Beds Herts and Bucks - In Pictures - Milton Keynes concrete cows
I saw a more colourful variation in the Basque country last year:
In the grounds of an orphanage - I don't know what the children thought of them .....
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains
I guess the many-multi-coloured-statues-of-some-sort has been a real hype all over europe (world?) for the past decade or so. Not sure where it started, but I think it was cows indeed ... Many towns/areas seem to have cows anyway. Hamburg has "Hummel-Hummel" watercariers all over the place , I'll dig up a snapshot if I can find one.
Cheers, Arp
P.S. Seem to have "archived" mine rather un-orderly  But here's one by someone else ... |