Street art · Rome

"Statua parlante" Abate Luigi

This weathered toga-clad figure is one of Rome's six "talking statues" — for centuries locals pinned anonymous satirical notes to it, making it an early anonymous op-ed page centuries before Twitter existed.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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