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It was written for the romance film, Three Coins in the Fountain and refers to the act of throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome while making a wish. Each of the film's three stars (Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, and Jean Peters) performs this act.
On their way into town, the three women stop at the Trevi Fountain. Frances and Anita tell Maria that according to legend, if she throws a coin in the fountain and makes a wish to return to Rome, she will. Maria and Frances throw in their coins, while Anita, who is planning to return to the United States to marry, declines.
The Trevi Fountain is depicted in the third movement, "The Trevi Fountain at Noon", of Ottorino Respighi's 1916 symphonic poem Fountains of Rome. [ 43 ] The fountain has appeared in several films, including Roman Holiday (1953); [ 44 ] Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Federico Fellini 's classic, La Dolce Vita (1960); [ 45 ] Sabrina Goes to ...
Where the money goes. Some well-known fountains can collect thousands of dollars in coins each year. According to an NBC report from 2016, the Trevi Fountain accumulated about $1.5 million in ...
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
The Baroque masterpiece constructed on the facade of a palace is one of the most popular sites in Rome for tourists, who strain over the crowds to throw their coins into its water.
Trevi Fountain, part of the inspiration for the novel Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Three Coins in the Fountain .
A temporary replacement pool installed in front of Rome’s landmark Trevi Fountain to catch tourist coins during restoration work has been targeted for online criticism.