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ITALY – Fewer tourists for more fun. The famous Trevi Fountain has officially reopened after a cleaning lasting several weeks and the municipality has decided to now limit the number of tourists to 400 at a time, announced the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri on Sunday, December 22 as you can see in our video at the top of the article. He added that this number could possibly be modified at the end of a test phase, the duration of which he did not specify.
“400 people at a time can be here (…) and the objective is to allow everyone to make the most of the fountain, without the crowds or the confusion”declared the mayor in front of this monument made famous by the film The Sweet Life. He confirmed that the municipality would study the possibility of establishing “a small entry ticket” to finance, among other things, the maintenance of the fountain.
Claudio Parisi Presicce, responsible for cultural assets at the town hall, told AFPTV that the work on the monuments of Rome, including the Trevi Fountain, was carried out in such a way as to “return to the city the majority of the monuments in time for the start of the Jubilee” of the Catholic Church which begins on December 24.
Three months of work
“The work lasted three months, with a huge overall effort which allowed us to close the sites earlier (…). It is a capillary work of cleaning, elimination of elements of degradation, weeds, limescale encrustations, which has borne exceptional fruit.he added.
The ceremony this Sunday took place in a light rain, in the presence of several hundred tourists, many of whom imitated the mayor, throwing a coin into the fountain. Traditionally, the many tourists, 10,000 to 12,000 per day so far, throw coins there, which is supposed to bring good luck. Normally, the authorities recover around 10,000 euros each week, paid to the charitable organization Caritas to finance meals for the poor.
This Baroque masterpiece built on the facade of a palace is one of the most popular sights in Rome, made famous by The Dolce Vitafilm by Federico Fellini, in which Anita Ekberg invites Marcello Mastroianni to join her in the fountain basin.
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