Brussels dresses Manneken Pis in spacesuit to honor Gagarin

Manneken Pis, the most popular symbol of Brussels, was dressed in a Russian spacesuit to mark the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin’s first space flight. “This event amazed [everyone] at the time and made hearts beat faster,” Brussels Mayor Freddy Thielemans told RIA Novosti. The small fountain sculpture was dressed in the spacesuit on the […]