City/Town:Stavoren

Name of the place:The Little Lady of Stavoren

Country:Netherlands

Province/Département:Frise

Number of inhabitants:950

Town's coat of arms:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Stavoren_wapen.svg/65px-Stavoren_wapen.svg.png

Location:52.958258028974385, 5.3397098912160414

Reasons for its inclusion:This statue refers to the legend about the birth of the Stavoren sandbanks. Once a very active port, the arrival of the sandbanks led to the decline of the town, which could no longer be reached by ships.

There 27 versions of this legend

Objects:Statue

Related stories or tales:La petite dame de Stavoren, Alphonse Esquiros' version of "La Néerlande et la vie hollandaise" published in the Revue des deux Mondes in 1862.

Photos:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vrouwtje_van_Stavoren.jpg?uselang=fr