Tartu boasts an unusually large number of outdoor sculptures and statues, dotted around its open spaces. Chloe is particularly keen on the two sculptures that depict babies. The first, next to her favorite playground, shows the artist and his infant son, reduced and enlarged respectively, so that they come out the same height. Chloe refers to it as the 'Big Baby Little Daddy Sculpture'.
The second baby sculpture sits atop a monument that was erected by the pedestrian bridge across the river in the 1970's to mark Tartu's population surpassing 100,000 for the first time. Ironically it soon dipped below this mark due to migration and a low birth rate, but apparently it is now back over 100,00o again.
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