Living statue actually has a life!

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In this popular square in Lagos you often find two statues. One depicts Sebastian of Portugal, King of Portugal and the Algarves, who succeeded to the throne at the age of three and died on an extremely foolish crusade, aged 24. (You will not be surprised to hear that this particular statue, as with most public art, wasn't received favourably. That said, I've seen better.)

Legend has it that he will return one day to save the country.

The other statue is definitely alive.

Here you can see him applying paint to his arms:



Here he is at work:



(Not our kid - he put the money in the box and ran away as fast as he could.)

And here he is on break, still wearing his industrial-strength kneepads: