There is an elementary school very near our home, placed in a very old building almost in the center of the city. As apparently there is not enough money to make a proper restoration of the whole building and the space around it, they came up with the cheaper idea to somewhat revive the school's front yard with murals on the walls and the fence.
So, now they have there a princess, ...
... a castle, ...
... and a shepherd.
I don't know from which fairy tale these characters arrived in this schoolyard, but they look to me way better than those old buildings' empty gray walls would look otherwise.
A long fence stretches along the other side of the yard. Although otherwise very simple and quite ugly, it served perfectly as an empty canvas for the murals.
There you can see a little boy Hlapitch, from a domestic fairy tale "The Brave Adventures of Hlapitch," a little shoemaker written by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, ...
... some happy and playful dwarves who might arrive from different stories and fairy tales, ...
... a tree as a symbol of their natural habitat, ...
... and the funny crowd from the Russian fairy tale "The Gigantic Turnip" written by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, who are all together trying to pull out that huge turnip.
Entering that schoolyard always makes me feel like entering into some fairy tale through some secret door like in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen," in which the children were entering the Snow Queen's world through the secret door hidden in the closet.
