"Roman Holiday" Mouth of Truth
From the movie Roman Holiday. Where is that? I need to stick my boyfriend's hand in it, ha ha. Also, do they have the dancing barges on the Tiber like in the movie too?
Daniela
Fair Oaks, California 7/9/08
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They do something along that line during the summer months. As always the hollywood version is the hollywood version.
It's in Rick's Rome book under Rome with Children. It's called la Bocca della Verita in Italian.
I would suggest hitting it early in the morning, we wandered by a couple times, in February, and there was always a line of people doing the photo op. There are also a couple well preserved temples nearby and it is close to the river and the Jewish Ghetto
What bus would you suggest to take me there?
Walk past the two flights of steps going up to Capitol Hill and keep walking a few blocks south. It's behind an iron fence in the front portico of a church. There was a line but it moved quickly with strangers taking each other's pictures.
It's not easy to find and not on many maps nor did I ever see any signs, even though I was looking for them. This website shows a map. Print off the satellite version.
www.knowingrome.com/2008/01/mouth-of-truth-la-bocca-della-verit.html