Traverse the winding roads of Rome with your penne. Jump across the East River with your pie. Take a tour of Tokyo with your rice. No we’re not delusional, we’re just totally hooked on City Plates, which bring urban dining to a whole new level.

From New York to Rome, Shanghai to London, New Orleans, and more, these porcelain plates have each city’s downtown core stylishly splashed across its surface in homage to whatever urban jungle you roam. In case you’re keen to learn a thing or two, City Plates can be quite useful too with rivers and public spaces marked in blue and green and key buildings colored in bright red. After all, nothing says I love my city quite like dotting its iconic buildings with gravy.

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Forget Edgar Muller and Julian Beaver, good though they are, Andrea Pozzo was creating breathtaking three-dimensional art back in the Seventeeth Century, including this, his most famous work, which adorns the nave ceiling of the Church of Sant’Ignazio in Rome.

A brick of any other kind would look as sweet, believes artist Jan Vormann. She began filling crumbling walls with multi-coloured Lego bricks in Bocchignano, a little village close to Rome, and was then invited to continue her rainbow reparations in Tel Aviv and Yaffo. Beautiful appropriation or ugly sacrilege?