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🕒 Date of last update of the article: 11.02.2024 at 10:00 p.m | 🖋 Author: Viktor Shatrov
Popular unofficial names for this mini-sculpture are “Manneken Pis” or “Boy with a Jingle Boy”. The mini-sculpture of the tinkling boy, called “One Step to Europe,” is the furthest from the central part of the Uzhgorod. It can be found near the Uzhgorod restaurant Kilikiya (1G Dytiachna St., Uzhgorod, GPS: 48.642446, 22.310454).
This figure of a “tinkling boy” became the smallest in Eastern Europe. There are only 15 similar sculptures around the world. Uzhgorod’s “Boy with a Gurgling Bang” is the top of a pump room of healing water. This water is enriched with silicon, normalises the digestive system and quenches thirst. You need to draw water from three special taps that are built into the column-pedestal, and not from where many people think.
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| 🗺 Location | N48°38′35″ E22°18′38″ |
| 🗽 Opening date | 08.12.2015 |
| 🧑 Author | Mykhailo Kolodko |
| 🧭 Distance from the center of Uzhgorod | Near |
| 🚙 Road for | Car, on foot |
| 🏕 Stop with a tent | No |
| 🏡 Housing nearby | Uzhgorod |
| ☕ Cafes and shops | Uzhgorod |
The material of this mini-sculpture is interesting, as it is made of volcanic tuff brought from the province of Kilikia in Armenia.
This mini-sculpture was unveiled on 08 December 2015 on the ninth anniversary of the Cilicia restaurant. At the unveiling of the monument, sculptor Mykhailo Kolodko said: “In the image of a boy with a herring, I am trying to play on our relationship with the European Union, and to do so, I turn to one of its most recognisable symbols. We are so close, but at the same time so far from Europe.”
Little Julien, or the Boy Who Blows (Manneken Pis), is a symbol not only of Brussels but of the whole of Belgium. No tourist route through the capital of the European Union is complete without him. There are many legends associated with the appearance of this 60-centimetre-high fountain statue in the Belgian capital. According to one version, a three-year-old boy put out a fire that suddenly broke out in the city in this simple way. According to another, the little boy was bewitched and turned into a bronze sculpture by an evil witch after he was careless enough to pee on the door of her house.
The legend of the Kilikian mineral water spring is told by Nadiya Popadiuk in her book Uzhgorod – the World Capital of Mini-Sculptures. According to the legend, this spring with healing and rejuvenating water was found by a little boy Jan, the son of the ruler of Uzhhorod, Yurii III of the Italian Druget family, while inspecting the land suitable for growing grapes with his father.
Kilikia restaurant is located near the road to Europe. The border with Slovakia is just 2 kilometres away.
| 🔰 Start | From Kilikia restaurant |
| 🚶 Walking distance | 15 m |
| 🕒 Approximate time | 1 minute |
| ⬆ Rise | Mostly without ups and downs |
Author of the article: Viktor Shatrov
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Knowledge of languages:: Ukrainian, English
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He was born and lived all his life in Uzhhorod. He graduated with a gold medal from Uzhhorod School No. 1 named after Taras Shevchenko (now Uzhhorod Lyceum named after Taras Shevchenko). He studied at the History Department of UzhNU, graduating with honours in 2009. He worked as a senior researcher at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, a lecturer at the East European Slavic University.
