Viktor Balogh: The Zero Kilometer Stone Interesting anecdote about the bridge Among the anecdotes relating to the bridge, the most popular is that the lions were sculpted without tongues and the sculptor was mocked so much that he jumped into the Danube in shame. The lions do have tongues (though not visible from below, which is the usual point of view, as the lions are laying on a stone block some three meters high), and the sculptor lived as long as in the 1890s, and the only message he sent to mocking people was "Your wife should have a tongue just as my lions have, and woe will be unto you!" Return