The nineteenth-century building ornament seems to get in the way of more desirable things such as billboard hangings and a place to park your car or your slapdash cow.

Prague, Nove Mesto; July 9, 2004; noon

Cow, buildings, people in Malostranske namesti, Prague.

July 9, 2004

A decorated cow...

One of the rarer uses of the fiberglass cows.

July 12, 2004; 12:30 pm
Focal length : 25.0mm (35mm equivalent: 101mm)
Exposure time: 0.020 s (1/50)
Aperture : f/9.0
ISO equiv. : 64

Not all the cows of the Cow Parade are cows... The bulls are hard to find, and I didn't see any steers. Prague, July 13, 2004.

Fiberglass cows, downtown Prague.

http://www.cowparade.net/

There were hundreds of painted cattle sculptures in Prague while we were there; to the best of my knowledge this is a traveling international exhibition, the significance of which was a mystery to me. But then, vivisimo.com searched for an answer and found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3983987.stm
This is *not* a traveling exhibition; it's a fund-raising project that's been used in many cities; in Prague it's a collection of cows (and a few bulls) of fiberglass painted by Czech artists. See http://www.cowparade.net/