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Trevi Fountain reopens after cleaning
From now on, there will be no more than 400 tourists wishing to approach it at a time.
Published today at 6:28 p.m.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome reopened this Sunday.
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The famous Trevi Fountain has officially reopened after a weeks-long cleaning and the municipality has decided to now limit the number of visitors to 400 at a time, announced this Sunday the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri.
“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 Roberto Gualtieri in front of this monument made famous by the film “La Dolce Vita”. He added that this number could possibly be modified at the end of a test phase, the duration of which he did not specify.
The mayor of the Italian capital also indicated that the municipality would study in the coming months the possibility of introducing “a small entry ticket” to finance, among other things, the maintenance of the fountain.
Permanent works in Rome
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 useful time for the start of the Jubilee” of the Catholic Church which begins on December 24.
“The work lasted three months, with a huge overall effort which allowed us to close the sites earlier (…). It’s a thorough job of cleaning, eliminating elements of degradation, weeds, limestone encrustations, which has borne exceptional fruit,” he added.
10,000 euros recovered every week
This Baroque masterpiece built on the facade of a palace is one of the most popular sights in Rome, made famous by Federico Fellini's film 'La Dolce Vita', in which Anita Ekberg invites Marcello Mastroianni to the join in the fountain basin.
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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.
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