Facebook quietly redesigns Places?

Facebook has given an aesthetic redesign to one of its little known features — Places.

As noticed by Inside Facebook reader Matteo Gamba, Facebook Places recently underwent a renovation. A Facebook spokesperson told Inside Facebook that the designed happened a while ago, however this design feels new.

Gamba discussed the changes on his blog:

Without any official announcement and apparently going unnoticed, Facebook Places have recently undergone some deep visual polishing, including emotional cover images, discovery sections, city and category landing pages and a deep integration with the Location API, Graph Searchqueries and user generated contents.