The Trevi Fountain in Rome

06/05/2024

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09/04/2024

What time do you think the Trevi Fountain is more crowded?

09/04/2024

On Via delle Muratte by the fountain a palace shows the Latin inscription: Ne Gloriari libeat alienis bonis, translated literally, means "so that no one may boast of the merits of others".
It is the first verse of the fable: The superb Crow and the Peacock. Phaedrus says that a Crow, dressed in the feathers of a Peacock, when she was recognized was rejected both by the Peacocks and by the other Crows. But it also refers to some facts about the fountain…which ones…?

09/04/2024

Saints Vincent and Anastasius is the Baroque church in front of the fountain. Built from 1646 to 1650 is located by the Quirinal Palace, for which it served as parish church, it is notable as the place where the precordia and embalmed hearts of 22 popes (from Sixtus V to Leo XIII) are preserved.

09/04/2024

Coat of arms of the cardinal Giovanni Costanzo Caracciolo di Santobono (Naples 1715-Rome 1780), Chief Executive of the Church Administration in charge of the waters and acqueducts

Few know that the Procurator of the Waters of Rome when the Trevi fountain was built between 1732 and 1762 was Cardinal Giovanni Costanzo Caracciolo di Santobono (Naples 1715-Rome 1780), whose coat of arms with a rampant lion facing is sculpted while sliding down and being held by laurel shoots on the rock on the right. Therefore, on the Trevi fountain, there are only two coats of arms: at the top, that of Pope Clement XII, reigning from 1730 to 1740, when construction began; and that of Santobono.

05/04/2024

Today, the fountain shines even more…

05/04/2024

General and architect Agrippa commanding the construction of the acqueduct that supplies the Trevi Fountain. See the details of the pipeline arches in the backgrouns.

05/04/2024

The fountain takes its water from the Aqua Virgo aqueduct that originated from springs located in the Agro Lucullano, near the VIII mile of the Road Collatina, in the current location of Salone, and ended in Campo Marzio after a mainly underground route of over 20 kilometres. There is a legend linked to a girl who would have indicated to the soldiers of Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus returning to Rome after the victorious battle of Actium against Marc Antony, the point where the source of water was. Virgo indeed in latin means “pure girl”.
There is a bas-relief on the fountain showing the event.

03/01/2024

The statue of the Abundance by Filippo della Valle, 1760

30/12/2023

HOW BIG IS THE TREVI FOUNTAIN ?
The fountain is 26,30 m high (85.28 feet, 118 roman palms), 49,15 large (160.72 feet, 220 roman palms). Every day it spills 80.000 cubic meter of water (2,824,800 cubic feet).
Read more...https://trevifountain.net/description.htm

30/12/2023

WHAT IS THE FOUNTAIN MADE OF?
The fountain is mostly built of travertine stone. The name of this stone derives from the Latin adjective tiburtinus, which means from Tibur, the actula city of Tivoli, about 22 miles (35 kilometers) East of Rome. Read more...https://trevifountain.net/curiosities.htm

30/12/2023

The online guide to the most beautiful fountain in the world in now online!

Everything there is to know about the Trevi Fountain in Rome