STROLLING IN ROME WITH YOUR PRIVATE DRIVER :THE MOUTH OF TRUTH
Once you arrived in Rome, it's time to hire a limousine or a minibus and go to discover the history as well as the myths about Rome with a personal english speaking driver guide.Many different Rome excursions are today available when coming, for example, from its port.
The Mouth of the Truth is a mask of marble in relief (pavonazzetto rose marble brought from Turkey) of great diameter (1,75 m) that served in Roman epoch as a trap for the Cloaca Maxima.
Devoted to a river divinity, it has the circular eyes and the open mouth, and it is walled in the portico of the church of Saint Maria in Cosmedin (1200's church where still today it is officiated with the Byzantine rite) from 1632.
The name derives from a tradition according to which those people that lent oath putting the hand in this mouth could not withdraw it if they said the forgery because the mouth was brusquely closed and the hand was removed with a violent bite.
Although in the antiquity it didn't have terrific semblances , this mask of stone has been through however spectator of capital executions by mean of the guillotine. In the square in front of the Mouth of the Truth, in fact, the executioner of Rome Mastro Titta cut only him 516 heads from 1796 to 1864, more sadder picture than the laughing medieval legend.
The mouth of truth can be for example the beginning of a wonderful car tour of Rome that continues to the Circus Maximus, considered the biggest stadium ever built in the ancient world and keep going to see the Appian way and the catacombs that are few minutes far away one each other if you take a private driver with you during your holiday in Rome.
This legend narrates of a jealous husband that wanted to disperse the suspicions on the unfaithfulness of his wife making her hand put in the mouth of the Truth. There were many spectators and among them a youth jumped out before she put the hand inside, kissing her. The young one, believed stupid and allowed to go, was in reality his lover. When she swore to never have been touched neither from her husband, neither from that young fool, she said therefore the truth, its hand was not cut and the doubts of unfaithfulness of her husband were dissipated.
You can also take this tour on the way to reach your cruise ship to Civitavecchia as a port excursion.
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