Europa och Tjuren, Bronze fountain at Stora Torg, Halmstad, Sweden.

Europa och Tjuren is a bronze fountain by Carl Milles on Stora Torg in Halmstad, cast in Denmark and inaugurated on 7 November 1926. Its centre shows Europa seated on Zeus in the form of a bull, with four nude tritons around the basin. The group stands on a rocky base in a shallow pool.

The work was commissioned in 1919 through a donation from merchant Jacob Jacobsson, who engaged sculptor Carl Milles to create the design. It was officially inaugurated at Stora Torg on November 7, 1926.

The sculpture tells the story of Europa's abduction by Zeus disguised as a bull, a Greek myth about transformation and fate. Visitors walk past a moment frozen in time that speaks to the theme of crossing boundaries between worlds.

The fountain sits on the north side of Stora Torg, a central square in Halmstad that is easy to locate on foot. The square allows visitors to view the bronze figures from different angles without restrictions or barriers.

On the fountain's rim stands a poem, and the work was cast in Denmark before its inauguration on 7 November 1926. A smaller variant showing only the bull stood outside the town hall in Tranås until September 2007, when it was moved indoors after experts from the TV programme Antikrundan warned that a similar sculpture had sold to a US collector for two million kronor.