Broxeele and Brussels are sister cities and the city of Brussels has given a replica of Manneken Pis to Broxeele.
The artist spent his youth at the foot of the legendary Manneken Pis, symbol of this bilingual town.
Similar statues can also be found in the Belgian cities of Koksijde, Hasselt, Ghent, Bruges, in the town of Braine-l'Alleud (where it is called "Il Gamin Quipiche"), and in the French Flemish village of Broxeele, a town with the same etymology as Brussels.
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There is an ongoing dispute over which Manneken Pis is the oldest - the one in Brussels or the one in Geraardsbergen.
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In the 1986 film, The Money Pit, the lead character, Walter Fielding, played by Tom Hanks, accidentally falls in a construction area where workers are renovating his home.