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Cover: Rome - Bocca della Verità Special cover

Address:
Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 18, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Category:
Drainage
City:
Rome For all signs in Rome
Country:
Italy For all signs in Italy
Shape:
Circle
Material:
Concrete / Stone
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Tags:
Historical elements People and characters Very old cover


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Photography:
2018
Eli Zvuluny
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Comments:
Bocca della Verità is a statue in Rome that is believed to be drainage cover existing from the Roman period.
According to the legend that began in the Middle Ages, Bocca della Verità serves as a true detector, when a person puts his hand into the mouth of the lid if he speaks falsely and the lid will bite his hand.

The lid is in the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin Click for a larger image

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The covers closest to the current manhole cover (Click to show or hide) Mesh (mosaic)

Rome - Drainage - near "Bocca della Verità"
Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 18, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (7 Meter)
Rome - Bocca della Verità - SPQR - drainage
Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 18, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (26 Meter)
Rome - Gas - near "Bocca della Verità"
Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 16, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (57 Meter)
Rome - ACEA - cover with the background of a chessboard 2
Via di Santa Maria in Cosmedin, 71, 00153 Roma RM, Italy (225 Meter)
Rome - SPQR - drainage 2
Via del Portico d’Ottavia, 46, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (527 Meter)
Rome - Sewage - SOLO 700
Via del Portico d’Ottavia, 49, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (562 Meter)


  The signs closest to the current manhole cover (Click to show or hide)

Rome - Bocca della Verità
Piazza della Bocca della Verità, 18, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (0 Meter)
Rome - home of Lucio Dalla
Vicolo del Buco, 7, 00153 Roma RM, Italy (521 Meter)
Rome - Holocaust memorial plaque on the Jewish school honoring perished students
Via Elio Toaff, 4, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (603 Meter)
Rome - Memorial plaques (Stolpersteine) in the Jewish Ghetto
Via del Portico d’Ottavia, 8, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (618 Meter)
Rome - The place where the Jewish cultural club "Children of ’48" stood
Via della Reginella, 15, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (661 Meter)
Rome - Hotel Ponte Sisto
Via delle Zoccolette, 19, 00186 Roma RM, Italy (956 Meter)

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