Street art · Rome

Statua equestre di Marco Aurelio

Bronze emperor, still commanding traffic 1,800 years later! The Equestrian Statue of Marco Aurelio survived only because medieval Rome mistook him for Constantine. Talk about a lucky case of misidentification.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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