Geography with a Human Face: The Sicilian City of Centuripe Captures the Internet with Its Unusual Silhouette (6 photos)

The ancient Sicilian town of Centuripe, founded in the 5th century BC and celebrated by Cicero himself, gained worldwide popularity thanks to images from space. Local photographer Pio Andrea Peri accidentally noticed on Google Earth that the contours of his native town, viewed from above, resembled the outlines of the human body. To confirm his hunch, the Italian took a series of panoramic photos using a quadcopter, which instantly went viral on social media. While some users see Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man in the landscape, others compare the mountain settlement to a giant starfish or a swallow in flight. Today, this unusual landscape, formed naturally on the hilltops, attracts thousands of tourists and aerial photography enthusiasts from around the world to the region.