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ITINERARI FONTANA DI TREVI 
Fontana of Trevi is the greatest of all the fountains of Rome; It is considered unanimously the more
celebrate Fountain of the world.Fountain of the 700, planned from Nicolò, is connubio of classicism and a baroque carefullied lay down on a side of Palace Poles. The topic of the sculpture is the sea. The scenografy is dominated from a "cocchio", a shell shape on which the great statue of the Ocean "Peter" is carefully layed down, placed side by side from the statues masterpiece of Pietro della Valle; the cocchio is hauled from small horses, preceded from tritoni. Tradition wants that you will have fortune launching a currency in the fountain turning yourself with shoulders to the fountain , because in this way you will surely return again in the city. The coins, collectioned daily, are destined to help people in need. It has been deeply restored in 1998, it has been cleaned up and it has been modernized and arranged also the hydraulic system. The history of Fontana di Trevi begins, at the time of the emperor Augusto, when I generate Agrippa made the water arrive currently until the Pantheon and to its terme thanks to the construction of the Vergine aqueduct (than it can be admired also in the "Piazza del Popolo"). Legendary is the origin of the Vergine's name that, according to Frontino, would have been given from the same Agrippa in memory of a child (in Latin virgo) which indicated the place to the soldiers who were finding it. The world of cinema has not remained indifferent in front of the magnificence and the reputation of Fontana of Trevi. The monument is protagonist of one of the most famous scenes of the Italian cinema and, perhaps, of that world-wide one: in the Sweet Life of Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg dives in the bathtub, inviting Marcello Mastroianni to have a bath with her. Previously, the fountain has been protagonist of the American film Three moneys in the fountain, where the title Fontana is just the one of Trevi. In Tototruffa 62 Totò tries to sell the fountain to an unprovided and unaware tourist, and with it the the copyrights for all the photos taken from the other tourists, making in this way incomprehension and serious gags. -> back Other information on Wikipedia - The free encyclpedia |