All tourists do it

Among the gigabytes of photographs brought by different people from their travels, very often there are almost identical pictures - pictures with monuments and sights, in the cultural code of which there is a simple but obligatory ritual. Holding on to Juliet's bronze chest, "supporting" the Leaning Tower of Pisa, grabbing a stone atlas by the finger - all tourists do it.

The TJournal robot collected Instagram photos from around the world to illustrate this claim.

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Juliet statue, Verona, Italy

1. In early 2014, Verona authorities reported that a bronze statue of Shakespeare's heroine, installed in 1972 in the courtyard of Juliet's House, had cracked. The reason for this was thousands of tourists who bent the hand of the statue and polished her right breast to a shine - after all, according to legend, touching Juliet's bronze breast brings happiness in love.

2. The city replaced the statue with a copy, and you can see from the latest photographs that the flow of pilgrims and pilgrims who want to touch the legend and capture this moment in the picture has not dried up.

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Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

9. Until the beginning of the 21st century, the Leaning Tower of Pisa was known as a unique architectural structure with an unintentional slope, where Galileo conducted his experiments. With the invasion of photo services, chosen by travelers, she also became a victim of the same tourist pictures.

10. The vast majority of those posing against the background of the tower "support" or "push" it, depending on the side from which they stood in front of the photographer.

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17. Among hundreds of identical pictures, sometimes there are attempts to come up with something new.

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Platform 9¾, London, UK

20. Fans of the Harry Potter saga, visiting London, will certainly take a photo of the small symbolic sign of "platform 9¾" at King's Cross station. It was from this non-existent platform in the J.K. Rowling novels that the Hogwarts Express departed to the school of wizardry and the village of Hogsmeade.

21. A sign of a true fan is an attempt to depict a Hogwarts student with a fluttering scarf from one of the four magical faculties.

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Stone of Eloquence, Blarney, Ireland

28. It is generally accepted that the stone, built into the wall of the Irish castle of Blarney, is part of the legendary Skone stone and gives the gift of eloquence to anyone who kisses it. At the same time, you need to kiss the stone, hanging from a high parapet with the help of an assistant.

29. In 2009, Tripadvisor ranked the Stone of Eloquence as the most unhygienic among European attractions, and in the novel Fight Club, the act of urinating on the Blarney Stone is described as a "little rebellion" of the protagonist.

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Great Pyramids, Giza Plateau, Egypt

38. Going to the only surviving wonder of the world, travelers are very fond of posing with one or even several pyramids, "grabbing" the ancient structure by the top.

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Atlanta, St. Petersburg, Russia

44. Petersburg Atlantes, installed in the portico of the New Hermitage, inspired Alexander Gorodnitsky to create the famous song about the Atlanteans, who "hold the sky on stone hands." And tourists love to grab them by their granite fingers.

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Another sun on the palm, Olga Zhigulina, TJournal