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Milano Italia

title: MOSAIC ARMS OF TURIN WITH THE BULL

subject date: 2015-03-23

caption: MILAN Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, floor mosaic depicting the emblem of the city of Turin, one of the four capitals of the Kingdom of Italy. According to a popular custom, luck would turn on themselves with the right foot pointed on the testicles of the bull; the inordinate amount of times that citizens and tourists passing decades have made superstitious this action is the cause of the hole formed in that area of ​​the mosaic. Photo by Elena Piccini, Italy in 2015.

category: HIS

city: Milano

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

place: Milano

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 69467

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XXI

image epoch: Duemiladieci

subject century: XIX

subject epoch: Ottocento

technique: Mosaico

id: 36890

file name: FSNgilardi_69467.jpg

keywords

superstitionheraldrycoat of armsgood luckMilancoat of armsTurinbullmosaicgood luckcustomtourismpopular traditionslucky charmPiedmontunification of ItalyLombardylaurel wreathconsumptionusuryattritionerosionabrasiondestructiondamagedamage