Universal Post Monument

The Universal Postal Monument (in German: Weltpostdenkmal), is a monument located in the Kleine Schanze park in the Swiss city of Bern. It commemorates the fact that Bern is the founding city and headquarters of the Universal Postal Union, which was founded in 1874.

The bronze sculpture entitled Autour du monde ("Around the World") was done by the French sculptor René de Saint-Marceaux, who won an international competition in 1903. The inauguration of the monument took place on October 4, 1909.

The sculpture stands behind a wide fountain basin on an artificial rock formation, at the base of which a spring emerges. Atop the rock's highest point is a column of clouds, meant to symbolize the majestic grandeur of the Bernese Alps, seemingly about to escape into space. This column of clouds supports a globe around which 5 female figures, representing the inhabited continents, hover and exchange…

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