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Milan Restores Bull Mosaic’s Testicles to Former Glory
Restorer Gianluca Galli is replacing worn stone pieces with epoxy resin after thousands of visitors ground the mosaic’s heels and damaged its surface.
- Restorer Gianluca Galli is repairing the worn bull mosaic at Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which represents Turin and has been damaged by thousands of tourists grinding their heels for luck.
- Milan deputy mayors Emmanuel Conte and Marco Granelli authorized the restoration after the pink tesserae forming the bull's testicles wore down into a small crater from the heel-grinding tradition.
- Galli is replacing the original lime and sand mortar with durable epoxy resins to better withstand tourist traffic; the modifications follow damage that accumulated since the 2017 restoration.
- Unable to perform their ritual on the bull during restoration, tourists on Thursday were observed grinding their heels on a neighbouring she-wolf mosaic representing Rome instead.
- Galli said he hopes this project will "encourage young people to take up this profession, because Italy is very much in need of male and female restorers" for its living heritage sites.
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·Vienna, Austria
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Legend has it that anyone in Milan who spins their heels three times on the anthers of a bull mosaic will be lucky. This part of the mosaic was badly damaged as a result, so the city authorities decided to restore it.
In Milan, tourists turn pirouettes on the genitals of a bull. Now the picture is extensively restored.
·Germany
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A superstition wants thousands of people to rub their heels on the beige cattle, in front of the dome of the Italian city. The restoration took a whole week.
·Paris, France
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