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Pasquino
This weather and time beaten sculpture, which lies in the Piazza Pasquino, is Rome's most famous 'talking statue'. During the 16th century (when there were no safe outlets for dissent) a tailor named Pasquino began sticking notes to it with satirical verses lampooning the church and aristocracy. Others joined in and pretty soon there were talking statues having conversations all over town. Even, today, Romans still leave messages to express their discontent through the stone lips of Pasquino.
