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Friday, September 26, 2008
Travel Photo Gallery: Rome - Italy
Location: Rome - Italy
Photo: Bocca Della Verita
Bocca Della Verita
La Bocca Della Verità ("the Mouth of Truth") is located in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, Italy. It is famously known as a lie detector. it was believed that if you put your hand in the mouth of the sculpture and told a lie, it would be bitten off.
You may have seen this image at an amusement parlour as a Fortune Teller.
Travel Photo Gallery: Rome Photo Gallery
Photo: Bocca Della Verita
Bocca Della Verita
La Bocca Della Verità ("the Mouth of Truth") is located in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, Italy. It is famously known as a lie detector. it was believed that if you put your hand in the mouth of the sculpture and told a lie, it would be bitten off.
You may have seen this image at an amusement parlour as a Fortune Teller.
Travel Photo Gallery: Rome Photo Gallery
Labels: italy, photo-gallery, rome
Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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