Interesting Statues

Dublin is blessed by a multitude of monuments, from the abstract to the life-like. Look at its statues and you look at the heart and soul of a city. Here are some favorites you might want to seek out.

The Famine Monument memorial is located along Custom House Quay, it is just a short walk from the Anchor House Dublin and close to the Convention Centre Dublin.

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Dublin has many statues and monuments dotted around her streets and parks.  They commemorate a person from Irish history or an event in Irish history.  Dubliners, 'Dubs', can be very witty and...

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The grounds of the Stormont Estate contain a number of statues, memorials and other interesting features that have been added over the years.

Architect: John Henry Foley Statue commemorating the Prince Consort, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, on the site of the Irish Exhibition of 1853.

The Irish Guards have been honoured in a new statue cast in bronze salvaged during the Iraq war.

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East German communism collapsed 25 years ago. But the city of Schwerin still has a Lenin statue, believed to be the last one in Germany. The mayor says it should stay because you can't erase history.

Statues have been created by man since the prehistory for all kinds of reasons and in all sizes. One of the first statues, a 29.6 cm (11.7 inches) hig...

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Bremen's 'statue of liberty' - a symbol of trading rights and freedom since 1404. Germany's largest Roland statue.