Rome, strips off and bathes completely naked in the fountain in front of Palazzo Chigi

She managed to mock law enforcement to bathe completely naked in the fountain in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, right in front of Palazzo Chigi. The protagonist of the gesture, which amused many passers-by (some of whom filmed her), is a girl whose identity is unknown at the moment. In a video shot by a person who was in Piazza Colonna at the time, the girl can be seen already in the fountain pool, swimming happily and smiling, inside the cordoned-off square, apparently unseen by the policemen who were also in the square (several trucks and even some officers can be seen).

After a swim, during which the young woman showed off her graces to passersby and the impromptu cameraman, she emerged from the fountain with an athletic gesture (after being filmed by a person, perhaps a plainclothes officer, who told her “you can’t”) and, with the same ease with which she swam naked in the fountain, she put on her clothes and left. All amidst the comments of onlookers, from the lapidary “she’s naked” to the Romanesque “’un ce se crede,” and so on. In the end, however, the young woman was taken to the Trevi-Campomarzio police station and identified.

The fountain in Piazza Colonna is one of the most interesting 16th-century fountains in the city, made between 1575 and 1577 by Giacomo della Porta, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII: it consists of a large elongated basin, with curved sides, and with two marble groups inside, made in 1830 by Achille Stucchi (they depict shells and dolphins spitting water).

Bathing in fountains is strictly punished by the Urban Police Regulations of the City of Rome, approved last year. Anyone who decides to use a fountain for a dip can be punished with a fine of 160 to 450 euros, and a 48-hour urban daspo. The rationale behind the measure is to preserve fountains from being damaged.

Rome, strips off and bathes completely naked in the fountain in front of Palazzo Chigi

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