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Rome mayor's announcement: 'From Feb. 1, the Trevi Fountain will be paid for by tourists'

If a few days ago it was only a hypothesis, now the announcement has come from the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri: visiting the Trevi Fountain will be chargeable for tourists, but it will not be the only Roman monument and museum site that will intr...
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Trevi Fountain to charge from January: Rome could cash in on tourists

As of January 7, tourists visiting the Trevi Fountain in Rome may have to pay an entrance fee of two euros (on the subject read the opinions of: Federico Giannini, Roberto Guiggiani, Vittorio Sgarbi and Isabella Ruggiero). Access for Roman residents,...
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Trevi Fountain: extraordinary maintenance completed, start of closed number as well

The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most beloved monuments, is back free of scaffolding after three months of extraordinary maintenance work overseen by the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency. The intervention, included in the PNRR Caput Mund...
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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...
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Where do the coins from the Trevi Fountain go?

The Trevi Fountain is undoubtedly one of the most famous monuments in the world: first of all, of course, because of the extraordinary work of the late Baroque that it is, but also because of the ritual associated with it that every tourist who comes...
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Rome, Trevi Fountain maintenance begins. There will also be a walkway to see it up close

In Rome , worksite operations began the day before yesterday to launch a major extraordinary maintenance operation at the Trevi Fountain, overseen by the Capitoline Superintendency and promoted by theCultural Department of Roma Capitale. The interven...
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Trevi Fountain for a fee? Crazy idea, impractical, and would cause negative phenomena

I am deeply opposed to the proposal, but I say right away that the problem is not in the cost, whether it is 2 euros or 5 or 10. It is not about defending tourists from a payment. The reasons are quite different. Contrary to what Councillor Onorato i...
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Putting a fee on the Trevi Fountain: a dystopian, grotesque and wrong idea, here's why

According to Rome's tourism councilor, Alessandro Onorato, visiting the Trevi Fountain should be an "experience," whatever that means: his word, he said so in a video he posted on his Instagram profile. Now, it is not important to investigate what th...
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