Culture: Monument

THE Little Mermaid

 

is a statue of a mermaid in Langelinie, Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, the small and unimposing statue (with a height of 1.25 metres is a Copenhagen icon and a major tourist attraction.

The statue was commissioned in 1909 by Carl Jacobsen, son of the founder of Carlsberg, who had been fascinated by a ballet about the fairytale in Copenhagen's Royal Theatre and asked the primaballerina, Ellen Price, to model for the statue. The sculptor Edvard Eriksen created the bronze statue, which was unveiled on 23 August 1913. The statue's head was modelled after Price, but as the ballerina did not agree to model in the nude, the sculptor's wife, Eline Eriksen, was used for the body.

The good points: 

As the name indactes it is a mermaid!

The bad points:

As it name indicates, she is little!!!!!!! I probably make many peoples sad, but she has nothing exceptional! 

The garden after mermaid Kastellet is really more interesting as mermaid.

Thousand tourists around her!
 

Special Informations:

You can take a boat if you want, for see her.