Vigeland Park

The sculptures at Vigeland Park are all one-of-a-kind because they are lifelike depictions of naked humans in various stances, some of which are sexual in nature. The majority of the sculptures are organized into five sections: the Wheel of Life, the Fountain, the main entrance, the Monolith plateau, and the bridge with a children's playground. All 212 of them, from soaring babies to dancing ladies to a heap of dead bodies, are designed for human life in its simplest form.

But, although they are philosophical, the statues at Vigeland Park are also irreverent — and some of them are quite startling! For example, there is a statue of a man throwing a woman over his head and a statue of another man fighting with… four babies! The monument is named Man Chasing Four Geniuses, and the infants are meant to symbolize malevolent spirits... although some say it represents the duties and responsibilities of parenthood.

The sculptures are arranged in groupings along an 853-meter-long axis. The fountain group is the oldest, symbolizing the cycle of human existence, beyond which can be seen the 16-meter-high Monolith, comprising 121 intertwined human bodies.

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