"If you're looking to visit the church through the selfie-adjacent entrance, it'll cost you one Euro, as compared to the nonexistent entry fee to enter via the other door."
"[A]ll you have to do is look up to see the fresco, but here we have people paying €1 to take a photo in the mirror," Alessandro Marinucci, who was on line to visit the church, told The Guardian.
"The juxtaposition of social media and historic sites might seem surreal at first. Then again, selfies are a relatively recent phenomenon, but people have been drawn to visually distinctive spaces for as long as we've felt the need to explore somewhere new."
"The appeal of other historic buildings and noteworthy destinations can wax and wane, with one generation's hotspot becoming another's overlooked gem."
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