Trevi Fountain
- Address:Piazza di Trevi, Rome
- Hours:Open all day, every day.
- Admission:Free
9:56 PM Sunday, May 27
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The Trevi Fountain is one of the most famous and most beloved sights in Rome. A huge Baroque flurry (85 by 65 feet or 25 by 20 meters) where water spills from rocks under the feet of Neptune, Triton and sea-horses into a large pool, it's always surrounded by coin-tossing tourists. Superstition has it that if you toss a coin into the fountain you will one day return to Rome. It shows how much people love this city that up to $3,500 a day is thrown in! The money is collected at night by the city and distributed to charity.
The Trevi Fountain began as a humble water outlet, the end of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct built in 19 BC to bring water to Roman Baths. The name comes from its location at the junction of three roads ('tre vie'). Around 1735 Pope Clement XII commissioned Niccolo Salvi to design the fountain we still love today.
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Excellent tour. We were lucky enough to have only three of us on the tour so we got lots of chances to ask questions and speak to the guide. He really knew his stuff - lots of interesting information and extra detail. I hadn't ridden a bike for some time and wasn't very confident to start with but I was given a chance to get accustomed to the bike before we started out, and most riding was on small laneways without much traffic. At particular points, e.g. Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, the guide looked after our bikes while we had a closer look. There was a bit of hill-climbing later in the tour but it was all manageable and the bike seats were comfortable! It did start to rain and we were given ponchos, which did keep us dry but were rather too long and I being quite short several times got my feet caught in the poncho as I started off.
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This is a great tour. Easy meeting place exactly as it states in the print our receipt from the internet. Great to skip the lines. The knowledge of the guide was very good. She knew the history, the dimensions, and how the rest of Rome tied in. This tour was surprising in that after the Collisseum we went to the Forum which I knew but then to Trevi Fountain and then to the Pantheon and then finished in a beautiful Piazza. This is a bit long and a lot of walking but well worth it!!
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We loved this bus tour, it saved our feet a grteat amount of walking and it got us to other places like the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps easily, it was good just to stay on the bus and do the complete tour which is what we did on our first ride, it gave us ideas as to where we wanted to get off on future rides.
Excellent value
Practical Info
The Trevi Fountain is located in the Trevi Square (Piazza di Trevi) on the via del Tritone. It is not far from the Spanish Steps and Piazza Navona in the heart of Rome. Good coffee and gelato is to be found in the cafes surrounding the square, but beware of the men offering red roses - they are relentless in their insistence on being paid.
