Trevi Fountain

Piazza di Trevi
Transport: Bus to Piazza San Silvestro
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours
Admission: Free

A string of legends surround the Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi), which is situated amid the labyrinthine streets off Via del Tritone. It is said that a virgin came across a three-way (tre-vie) spring, causing the original fountain to be built. More recently, the far-from-virginal Anita Ekberg immortalised the fountain in the famous scene of Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1959). According to myth, a coin cast in these waters will ensure a return visit to Rome. The Baroque extravaganza was designed by Nicol Salvi for Pope Clement XII, and completed in 1762. The statues - representing Abundance, Agrippa, Salubrity, the Virgin and Neptune guiding a chariot drawn by sea horses - appear as a cast of characters performing a melodrama, with a Renaissance palace for their backdrop, and craggy rocks in the foreground.

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