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Pig Year Bridge, also known as Saphan Pi Kun, carries pedestrians across Bangkok’s Old City Moat. Built in 1911, it commemorates Queen Phatcharinthra’s forty-eighth birthday, which fell during the Thai Year of the Pig. Four decorative pillars mark the corners, representing birthday candles for four twelve-year zodiac cycles.
A nearby memorial appeared in 1913 for the queen’s fiftieth birthday and the Year of the Pig. Its oversized cast-metal pig rests beneath a canopy on a stone plinth, surrounded by smaller pig figures. Prince Narissara Nuwattiwong helped sponsor the memorial and designed its central pig.
The moat dates to the Thonburi period in 1771, when defensive waterworks bordered both sides of the Chao Phraya River. In 1982, the Thai government brought its different historical names together as Khlong Khu Mueang Doem. The covered pig statue gives this crossing its most memorable detail.
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