There are over 600 dwarf statues in Wrocław, Poland, and the number is constantly growing. These figurines are a popular tourist attraction, and many businesses and the city itself continue to add to the collection.
The first dwarf statues were created to commemorate the Orange Alternative, a peaceful resistance movement in the 1980s. According to a BBC article, each statue is a nod to the Orange Alternative, a movement that helped bring down Poland’s oppressive communist regime. The city installed the first bronze dwarfs in 2001, and the number has since increased significantly.
