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Bocca della Verita outside Santa Sabina as a fountain

The water is still good in Rome so many centuries later and there are many fountains throughout the city. Here what may have been a drain cover from the 4th century CE is turned into a fountain (of truth). We saw some people drink though we refrained. The legend goes that the mouth would snap shut over the hand of anyone who told a lie.

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