Spot a Vespa parked on a Florentine street
Find a Vespa parked on a cobblestone street in the centro storico. Photograph the scooter.
Spot a wine window (buchette del vino)
Find a wine window (small medieval shutter in a wall, once used to serve wine directly to passers-by). Photograph the small wooden door.
Spot an aperitivo Aperol spritz
Find an Aperol spritz (orange, with the white-rim glass) on a café table. The afternoon ritual. Photograph the orange.
Spot an Aperol spritz
Find an orange Aperol spritz at a café table (Venice is the spritz capital). Photograph the glass with the olive and orange slice.
Spot an espresso cup
Find a small espresso cup (caffè) on a bar counter or saucer. Photograph the crema on top.
Spot an Inter Milan or AC Milan stadium reference
Find a reference to the San Siro / Giuseppe Meazza stadium (a kit shop, a poster, a flag, a souvenir). Photograph it.
Spot an Inter or AC Milan kit
Find an Internazionale (blue-and-black) or AC Milan (red-and-black) jersey on someone or in a shop. Photograph the kit.
Spot an Italian flag from a balcony
Find an Italian tricolor flag flying from a Venetian balcony or palazzo. Photograph the flag against the palazzo.
Spot an Italian flag in Florence
Find an Italian tricolor flag (green-white-red) flying on a Florence building. Photograph it.
Spot an obelisk
Find an Egyptian obelisk in a Roman square (there are thirteen across the city, more than in Egypt itself: Piazza Navona, Piazza del Popolo, San Giovanni). Photograph one against the sky.
Spot an SPQR plaque
Find an SPQR plaque (Senatus Populusque Romanus) on a public fountain, manhole cover, lamp post or bin. Rome uses it as its modern logo too. Photograph the letters.
Spot Castello Sforzesco brick
Find the Castello Sforzesco, the red-brick Renaissance castle. Photograph the towers or the Filarete entrance.
Spot Giotto's Bell Tower
Find the Campanile di Giotto on Piazza del Duomo, the marble bell tower next to the cathedral. Photograph the patterned facade.
Spot Palazzo Vecchio crenellations
Find the Palazzo Vecchio facade and its battlement crenellations on top of the Arnolfo Tower. Photograph the tower against the sky.
Spot Piazza della Signoria statues
Walk to Piazza della Signoria and find one of the statues (Neptune Fountain, the David replica, the Loggia dei Lanzi figures). Photograph one.
Spot pizza al taglio
Find pizza al taglio (rectangular pizza sold by weight) at a Roman pizzeria. Photograph the long pan with different toppings.
Spot the Acqua Alta bookshop
Find the Libreria Acqua Alta in Castello, with books stacked in bathtubs and gondolas inside. Photograph the famous interior.
Spot the Baptistry doors (Gates of Paradise)
Find the gilded bronze doors of the Baptistry (Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise replica). Photograph the panels.
Spot the Basilica San Marco facade
Find the Basilica di San Marco on Piazza San Marco. Photograph the five gold-mosaiced arches.
Spot the Bernini colonnade
Walk into St. Peter's Square and find Bernini's curved colonnade arms reaching around. Photograph the columns receding.
Spot the Boboli Gardens or Pitti
Walk across the Arno to Palazzo Pitti and find the rustic stone facade or the Boboli garden entrance. Photograph the facade or gardens.
Spot the Bosco Verticale
Find the Bosco Verticale (the residential towers with trees and plants on every balcony) in Porta Nuova. Photograph the green-walled towers.
Spot the Bridge of Sighs
Find the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) connecting the Doge's Palace to the old prisons. Photograph from Ponte della Paglia.
Spot the Ca' d'Oro facade
Find the Ca' d'Oro (Golden House) on the Grand Canal, the gothic palazzo with the lacework facade. Photograph from a vaporetto or the opposite bank.