Tourists rub the nose of "Porcellino" the little boar sculpture in Florence

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Porcellino (Italian “Little Pig”) is the local nickname for the boar statue bronze fountain in Florence. The original sculpture was discovered in Rome and moved to Florence by the Medici family in the middle of the 16th century. Legend has it that if you rub the gold-plated nose of a wild boar and then throw a coin at his open mouth, and the coin falls in the fence of the fountain, you could once again return to the beautiful city of Florence.

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Location: Florence
Photo credit: © moritz steiger / Alamy / Afripics
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