The secret of Europe's largest Sphinx and touching story behind it

When it comes to the Sphinx, surely one of us thinks of the mysterious Egypt and thinks that there is no Sphinx anywhere in the world! But there is a mysterious place in Croatia, home to Europe's largest Sphinx.

The story of the Sphinx below may make you want to come here immediately to witness this unbelievable thing:

Europe's largest sphinx statue

In the city of Zadar on the Adriatic coast, Croatia, which is considered a historical center of Dalmatia, is also home to a Sphinx statue, which helps the city attract a huge number of tourists to come here every year .

Besides the ruins and ancient architectural structures that exist in Dalmatia, the story of the "Croatian" Sphinx is something that no visitor can ignore when coming here.

Here, visitors hear the wonderful story behind this statue, which tells:

In the nineteenth century, there was an extremely brilliant guy named Giovanni Smirich who lived in Zadar city, when he went to study (to become a painter and later historian) in Venice (Italy), he had casually met the beautiful girl Attilia Spineda de Cataneis .

Their love story progressed very smoothly, both married and together to live in Dalmatia, they lived happily together and had 5 children together.

The Sphinx statue commemorates the wife of Smirich painter.(Photo: Ancientcode).

The Sphinx statue.(Photo: Žeminea Čotrić).

Both husband and wife are self-contained people so they often decorate their gardens and mansions with very different things. Smirich is an extremely painter who loves the ancient Egyptian art style as well as its history.

He personally designed the villa named Villa Attilia in 1901, where he and his beautiful wife can create creativity for everything around this villa, especially both passionately passionate about things. mysterious (especially related to Egypt).

Unfortunately, his wife unfortunately died, leaving regret and pity in the old artist and the large villa but now becomes extremely cold.

That's why Smirich decided to sculpt the Sphinx of Zadar in 1918 as a way to commemorate his late wife. It was built exactly like the Sphinx statue in Egypt with only a few minor differences.

Mysterious Sphinx statue at Attilia mansion.

Specifically, the statue was built with concrete instead of stone and had hands like people but not legs, in front of the statue was a water tank (each used to be goldfish but now shallow). Many people believe that this statue is protecting a treasure below.

On the statue also engraved mysterious hieroglyphs that no one could decipher. A lot of people have searched for this treasure but have no results.