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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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Trevi Fountain fee and municipalities hungry for easy money

Councillor Alessandro Onorato's idea to introduce a pay-as-you-go ticket (2 euros for half an hour) at the Trevi Fountain confirms for the umpteenth time how money-hungry Italian municipalities are becoming. Especially when this money is easy and com...
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Trevi Fountain fee? Wrong idea, it is butchery that impoverishes Rome

Vittorio Sgarbi's comment on the Rome city administration's proposal to allow access to the monument only upon payment of a ticket. Trevi Fountain for a fee? Wrong idea. The gimmick that some of the city's "attractions" are slot machines is a way to...
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The Trevi Fountain could become pay-as-you-go: here's how and why

The Trevi Fountain in Rome could soon become accessible only by closed numbers and reservations in order to better manage the flow of tourists and prevent crowds. This is the proposal brought forward by Alessandro Onorato, Rome's Councillor for Major...
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