MESTRE - When I received the image of the customized OEMC2011-tiles in my mailbox, most of them I recognized immediately: the Colosseo in Rome, the Venetian gondola, the Leaning Tower of Pisa… and the Cathedral, the ‘Duomo’, of Florence.

But some I did not recognize, so I mailed Marco Milandri of the OEMC organizing committee about them. Upon which he informed me about the Rose Window (rosone) of the Golden House in Venice, the rowlock (forcóla) of the gondola and… about the Mole Antonelliana in Turin; apparently, I was wrong about the Dome in Florence.
So I published my article about it, both on Mahjong News as on the OEMC2011 website. The latter attracted the attention of French mahjong player Emma Guenel: ‘I think this is the Saint Peter in Rome’, she commented on the article.

I forwarded her comment to Marco Foschi, the president of the Italian mahjong federation.
“I do not know how this mistake could have happened”, Marco answered me. “She is right.”
But, before I had the chance to correct both articles, I got a new mail from Marco: “I have finally reached the graphic artist who designed the tiles”, he wrote. “There must have been some misunderstanding. It looks like Saint Peter indeed, yet it is the Dome of the Santa Maria in Fiore, better known as the Dome of Florence.”
So now you know also.