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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 Rome ...
The most famous Roman fountains of this period include: The Fountains of St. Peter's Square, by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1677) were made to complement the lavish Baroque facade Maderno designed for St. Peter's Basilica. The Maderno fountain was built on the site of an earlier fountain from 1490, and used the same lower ...
People admire the 18th century Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most iconic landmarks, as it reopens to the public after undergoing maintenance, just on time for the start of the Jubilee Year, an ...
The fountain was restored in 1998, to remove limestone deposits. Another restoration occurred in 2018 after Dutch hooligans damaged the Fontana della Barcaccia after a football game in 2015. The Dutch association Wij Zijn Romeinen wanted to finance another restoration in addition to the Barcaccia fountain to show their love for Rome. [2] [5] [6]
The upper part of the courtyard, the Cortile della Pigna, takes its name from the fountain. The pinecone, shown within the niche. The bronze peacocks on either side of the fountain are copies of those decorating the tomb of the Emperor Hadrian, now the Castel Sant'Angelo. The original peacocks are in the Braccio Nuovo Museum.
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 Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, also called the Fountain of Moses, [1] is a monumental fountain located in the Quirinale District of Rome, Italy. It marked the terminus of the Acqua Felice aqueduct restored by Pope Sixtus V. It was designed by Domenico Fontana and built in 1585–1588. [2]
It has only been there since 1930; it is a copy of an ancient Roman fountain, a marble basin supported by a central column and three pilasters. The original is now in the Louvre. The original fountain on the site, the Fountain of the Sea Horses, which was moved by Ippolito from Hadrian's Villa to his garden, is now in the Vatican Museum.