Serbia’s Rocky Statue in Žitište, Serbia

Everybody know that Philadelphia has a Rocky Balboa statue—it is a part of Atlas Obscura and one of the more popular sights in the City of Brotherly Love. There was another, a replica, in San Diego that was bought at auction by a private collector in 2017—who turned out to be Sylvester Stallone himself. And then there’s a third one—in Žitište, Serbia. Not a copy of the A. Thomas Schomberg original, it was made by Croatian sculptor Boris Staparac in 2007 as a symbol of hope and perseverance for the small,…

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