Scavenger hunt in Italy

Spot a Venetian narrow calle

Find an especially narrow Venetian alley (calle) where you can almost touch both walls. Photograph the slot.

Spot a Venetian pigeon in St Mark's

Walk into Piazza San Marco and find the pigeons in flight or perched. Photograph the birds with the basilica or campanile in shot.

Spot a Venetian street water tap

Find a Venetian iron drinking water tap with the city's coat of arms in a campo. Photograph the tap.

Spot a Venetian sundial or wall clock

Find a Venetian astronomical clock, sundial or painted clock face on a palazzo. Photograph the timepiece.

Spot a Venetian well-head (vera da pozzo)

Find a stone well-head in a campo (Venetian square). Photograph the carved cylindrical well.

Spot a Venetian winged lion

Find a winged Lion of St. Mark (on the column in Piazzetta, on the Doge's Palace facade, on a venetian flag or building). Photograph the lion.

Spot a Venice mooring pole (briccola)

Find a striped mooring pole (briccola) sticking out of the water on the lagoon side. Photograph the pole against the water.

Spot a Vespa

Find a Vespa scooter parked or in motion (Rome has more Vespas than nearly any city). Photograph the chrome and the rider.

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.