Trevi Fountain

Travel
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 02/04/2020 - 05:54
Protective barriers are to be set up around the Trevi Fountain in Rome to prevent tourists from sitting on one of the Italian capital’s most iconic monuments…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 08/22/2018 - 10:00
Rome is dotted with fountains – hundreds of them. From monumental to small, the city’s architectural landscape is very much characterized by the presence of ‘…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 09/26/2017 - 06:48
Rome has been a favorite set for directors through the history of cinema, from Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, shot in 1960, to recent Oscar winner La Grande…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 08/16/2017 - 10:25
During a summer when problems caused by mass tourism have emerged more apparent than ever in a number of Italian destinations, Rome is experimenting with a new…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 06/13/2017 - 05:20
[Really?! Women bathing in the 17th-century Fontana dell'Acqua Paola last summer in Rome.] Enough with frolicking at Rome’s historic fountains. Rome mayor…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 01/22/2016 - 00:00
[Photo: reconstruction of the original medieval facade of Florence's Duomo by Arnolfo di Cambio’s at the revamped and enlarged Opera del Duomo museum in…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 11/11/2015 - 05:00
The Trevi Fountain is shining and flowing again – the 17-month restoration work, financed by fashion house Fendi for a total of 2.2 million euros, concluded…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 08/12/2014 - 02:00
The Trevi Fountain is no doubt one of the most famous and visited monuments of Rome. The iconic fountain is undergoing a two-million restoration project,…
Lifestyle
by Barry Lillie | Tue, 07/29/2014 - 03:47
Everyone seems to like lists, and there is no shortage of Italian related ones; the top ten hotels, ten best beaches and the ten sculptures you should see. So…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 06/04/2014 - 04:49
Restoration work on the Trevi Fountain is set to begin Thursday, June 5. Entirely financed by luxury fashion house Fendi, the €2 million project to revamp the…