Trevi Fountain without water, City Council puts in a coin tray. And the web goes wild

Maintenance in sight in Rome for the Trevi Fountain: in recent days, the great Baroque monument has been left without water to allow for intervention operations (in fact, it was necessary to remove the water from the fountain to start the maintenance of the marbles), and in order not to deprive the public of the traditional throwing of a coin into the fountain’s basin, considered a good-luck ritual, the Municipality of Rome has seen fit to install, inside the Trevi Fountain’s basin , a few meters, a small pool so as not to let the tradition fail.

The photograph of the tiny pool was posted on Instagram by the page “Welcome to Favelas” and immediately raised the irony of users, getting more than 40 thousand likes and a thousand comments. “I don’t know if it’s more inconvenient who thought ’this thing’ or who threw the coins in the little pool anyway,” says the comment with the most likes (over 7 thousand). “You think you’ve flown 14 hours to the Trevi Fountain and you find yourself ’na little communal pool,” comments another. “The famous Trevi pool,” comments one user. “If they used to dive in the fountain before ... figuremose now with the pool.” “We make the world laugh.” “Tell me to give you money without telling me to give you money.” “I can imagine the voice in Metro A...next stop Barberini, Trevi pool, right side exit.” Inevitable is the “What’s ’this cafoolery.’” And some rightly note, “Let’s look on the bright side: we will become an international meme.” And so, now, memes are indeed expected....

Trevi Fountain without water, City Council puts in a coin tray. And the web goes wild

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