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Dragon Fountain

Neuer Platz, Klagenfurt’s central square, is dominated by the 16th-century Dragon Fountain, the emblem of the city and one of Central Europe's oddest urban sculptures. The blank-eyed, wriggling statue is modelled on the Lindwurm (dragon) of legend, which is said to have resided in a swamp here long ago, devouring cattle and virgins.

It has a curly, pig-like tail and spews water instead of fire.

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