Smedens Bro has carried foot traffic over Aarhus Å since its 1911 opening, but the detail everyone remembers sits on its four support pillars: a crouching, big-eared figure with hollow eyes, caught in what looks unmistakably like the act of relieving itself. Locals call it a solgrylle, after a folk belief that the summer solstice sun holds still exactly as long as it takes the figure to finish.
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