A practical joker who posted a photo of a famous Italian landmark pretending it was the Valleys fooled hundreds online - including a local tourist site. The culprit - the anonymous Rhondda-based artist known only as Bagsy - claimed to have even had requests for the shot to be used by a TV news programme to accompany its evening weather forecast.
The aerial night-time snap - actually depicting the world-renowned Valley of Lights, or Val Trompia, in the Province of Brescia - quickly began popping up all over social media. Among its appearances was on tourism advice centre Visit RCT's Facebook page, along with several other community sites.
On the Cynon Valley-based Hirwaun Chat it was posted by someone as being a drone-shot of "traffic going up to Rhigos through four-way traffic lights." Meanwhile, someone else was being duped over on FB's Pictures and Memories of Newport.
