Heidi - Zurich, Switzerland
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Marine Biologist
N 47° 22.385 E 008° 32.621
32T E 465550 N 5246725
Heidi the Cow is a landmark in Old Town Zurich where she has been gazing at people passing by the Hotel Adler since 1998. Although this beautiful bovine is the namesake of the famous of Swiss girl "Heidi", she does not represent a real cow.
Waymark Code: WMMJ3M
Location: Zürich, Switzerland
Date Posted: 09/26/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Outspoken1
Views: 11

"She wears the old-town Zurich panorama as a body painting. She has over 1000 Facebook fans. And she is the namesake of the most famous of Swiss girls, “Heidi”, whose fictional tales were written by Johanna Spyri in Zurich: Our Heidi, the hotel cow, looks out in sunshine or in rain from the balcony of the Hotel Adler, moos silently at the photographing tourists in the Niederdorf and supervises the welfare of the hotel guests.

The artist Heinz Blum tastefully painted this glass-fibre sculpture during the summer "Zurich Cow Culture" campaign of 1998."

--Hotel Adler (visit link)
Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Heidi

Figure Type: Animal

Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Heinz Blum

Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1998

Materials used: Fiberglass

Location: Hotel Adler balcony

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