Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk

Neptune has stood on Gdańsk's Long Market in front of the Artus Court since 1633, a bronze sea god cast in the 1610s to celebrate the city's ties to the Baltic and its wealth from trade. Abraham van den Blocke designed the fountain and the Flemish sculptor Peter Husen modeled the figure. The local legend says Neptune, annoyed by coins tossed into his basin, smashed them with his trident into the gold flakes that float in Gdańsk's Goldwasser liqueur.