Sydney’s Philanthropic Bronze Boar in Sydney, Australia

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Along the sidewalks of Macquarie Street, in the shadow of the grand stone arches of Sydney Hospital, sits a striking geographical and cultural anomaly. A bronze wild boar squats above a fountain basin, its snout worn down to a polished, gleaming gold. Anyone who has ambled through the Mercato Nuovo in Florence will experience an immediate sense of déjà vu: this is an exact 1:1 scale replica of Il Porcellino, the famous 17th-century masterpiece sculpted by Pietro Tacca. While the Florentine boar