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Mouth of Truth

Mouth of Truth

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Mouth of Truth

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Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy

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JavierCR 🇪🇸

February 3, 2025

The legendary sculpture of the Mouth of Truth is of enormous dimensions. With a diameter of 1.75 metres, it is dedicated to the God of the Sea, represented by a bearded male face with pierced eyes, nose and mouth.
A husband who distrusted his wife brought her to the Mouth of Truth to test her fidelity. The woman reacted by pretending to faint and her lover picked her up in his arms. After this, the woman swore before the Mouth of Truth that she had only been in the arms of her husband and the man who had just picked her up.
This is just one of the many legends that exist about the famous sculpture, which, over the years, continues to generate enormous expectation.

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Roma 'n Bike

April 22, 2021

The legend says that already in the Middle Ages people began to believe that sculpture had the power to unmask lies. For this reason, the suspects were led in front of the mask and were then forced to introduce a hand inside its "mouth". In case of innocence, they would have portrayed her unscathed; in case of guilt, the mouth would have bitten them, amputating the hand cleanly

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Andrea Br1

September 4, 2023

put your hand in your mouth to find out if you are telling the truth or not

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Mouth of Truth

1. GRAB: Grande Raccordo Anulare Bici - Bike Ring Road around Rome

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