Trevi fountain

Halfway between via del Corso and Piazza Barberini on via del Tritone you'll find a street on the south side called via Mortaro. It leads to via Poli which will take you in two blocks to the Trevi Fountain. A homely area, and generally overcrowded (with tourists like us), but a beautiful fountain, especially since they've renovated and cleaned it. A rarely visited fountain until the movie classics: “Three Coins in the Fountain” (1954) which opens with a view of this fountain and of course “La Dolce Vita” (1960) with Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni kissing in the fountain. These films made the fountain the romantic center of Rome: “You've never lived until you've lived in Rome!”

The fountain is not only celebrated for its excellent water but for the legend that, whoever drinks it or throws a coin in the fountain, will assure his return to Rome. We don’t recommend drinking the water though, so: with your back to the fountain, a coin thrown by right hand over left shoulder (or is it left hand over right shoulder?) into the fountain will guarantee your return to Rome. (It's often worked for us!) Go at night, when the fountain is lit, and you will fall in love with the magic of Rome's many fountains!

The architect Salvi built this magnificent fountain in the time of Clement XII. It is making the front of a big palace and is adorned by statues and reliefs by several artists of Bernini's school. From all the spots of the rock section at the bottom of the fountain there ‘s water sprouting out.