Angels, bottles, Fruit, guitars, whatever you like, somebody, somewhere has made a statue to it. Usually advertising local produce. Why not? The USA, Canada, and Australia are especially fond of giant monuments.
Here they are, first alphabetically by type, to track them down by subject matter, then by country for convenience of visit.
Alice in Wonderland: Central Park, New York, USA;
Australia.
Statue of Alice, Rymill Park, Adelaide, Australia.
Angel of the North, UK.
Aristotle, Aristotle, Aristotle Park, Greece.
Bean (Pinto Bean), Canada.
Duck, Canada. Mallard Duck at Andrew, Alberta.
Guitar, Australia.
Mermaid (Little Mermaid), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mushroom monument in the village of Vilna, (not the city of Vilnius,) Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sunflower, Bow Island, Albert Canada.
Sphinx of Giza, Egypt.
The Thinker, by Rodin, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (I have seen this in at least two other places.)
The Waltz. France
(In French, La Valse.)
What To See Where
America: Alice in Wonderland
Australia: Alice in Wonderland
Canada: Alberta: Antelope, Bear, Beaver. Bee, Bison, Cowboy, Cowboy Boot, Crow, Crown, Dinosaurs, Duck. Elk, Moose, Mushrooms. Pig, Piggy Bank, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Sunflower, Swan, Teepee
Denmark: Little Mermaid; The Thinker.
Egypt: The Sphinx
France: The Waltz
UK: Angel of the North.
Useful Websites
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg
Incoming president Faith from Wed July 15th 2020 change dates and platforms so please contact the club.
Latest is only two meetings each month.
For meetings learncool it is quicker to type and easier to remember:
tinyurl.com/BHACOOL
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https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/vi/en/Learn-Vietnamese
https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/
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https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html
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Here they are, first alphabetically by type, to track them down by subject matter, then by country for convenience of visit.
Alice in Wonderland: Central Park, New York, USA;
Australia.
Angel of the North, UK.
Aristotle, Aristotle, Aristotle Park, Greece.
Bean (Pinto Bean), Canada.
Duck, Canada. Mallard Duck at Andrew, Alberta.
Guitar, Australia.
Mermaid (Little Mermaid), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Mushroom monument in the village of Vilna, (not the city of Vilnius,) Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sunflower, Bow Island, Albert Canada.
Sphinx of Giza, Egypt.
The Thinker, by Rodin, in Copenhagen, Denmark. (I have seen this in at least two other places.)
The Waltz. France
(In French, La Valse.)
What To See Where
America: Alice in Wonderland
Australia: Alice in Wonderland
Canada: Alberta: Antelope, Bear, Beaver. Bee, Bison, Cowboy, Cowboy Boot, Crow, Crown, Dinosaurs, Duck. Elk, Moose, Mushrooms. Pig, Piggy Bank, Potatoes, Pumpkin, Sunflower, Swan, Teepee
Denmark: Little Mermaid; The Thinker.
Egypt: The Sphinx
France: The Waltz
UK: Angel of the North.
Useful Websites
http://www.bigthings.ca/alberta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue
About the author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg
For meetings learncool it is quicker to type and easier to remember:
Useful Websites On Speaking and Languages
translate.google.com
duolingo.com
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html
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