All admissions and transportation are included as well as a licensed English-speaking guide! If there is some sort of restoration going on the fountain will be drained and cleaned.
By far the easiest way to get to the Trevi Fountain is to connect to wifi and click on the link below. You can keep your phone on airplane mode and leave wifi. Your GPS dot will still give you an accurate location. If that is not possible, the fountain is located in the center of Rome and is relatively well connected by mass transit. In general, Rome has winding streets that make things difficult to find but there are plenty of signs to follow.
You can take the subway to the Trevi Fountain and get off at Barberini metro station. From here you can walk down Via Del Tritone for 5 minutes until you see a small piazza featuring V ia Della Stamperia.
Turn left and follow the sound of rushing water until you see the fountain. The Trevi Fountain is built the majority from Travertine. It is complex in nature and embodies the Roman spirit. Not only that, but it defines Baroque artwork with its violent movements and depth of meaning.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini dominates the Baroque movement. You almost cannot find a book on Baroque artwork without a Bernini sculpture on the cover. Then there is the Trevi Fountain. Nicola Salvi, who was basically a no-name artist, builds this one-hit-wonder fountain that is considered the greatest fountain out of marble on Earth and arguably the most beautiful fountain ever constructed. The best part is, he only had one other large commission, a church in Viterbo which was destroyed in WWII.
Basically, this fountain is his one and only work of art that dominates the large-scale Baroque scene. By far, the best time to go to the Trevi Fountain is at night or in the early morning or during a pandemic with proper safety measures. Four or five in the morning appears to the absolute best time to go in terms of crowds but you may find yourself sitting aside young lovers who have wondered there after a late club night.
Rome is generally a safe city, but like anywhere in Europe, pickpockets prey on the drunk after 2 am. After dark, the fountain is beautifully decorated with lights and is buzzing with people. It is a must-see for your trip. Apparently, when Nicola Salvi was building the fountain, there was a barbershop and a barber within the shop. The barber was not very happy about the construction of the fountain for his business and he gave a lot of trouble to Salvi.
Enough trouble to really piss Salvi off. Besides traveling, she loves baking, talking to strangers, and taking long walks on the beach. Follow her adventures on Instagram. By Jessica Poitevien September 10, Save Pin FB More. Interior of Vicus Caprarius.
Entrance to Vicus Caprarius. All rights reserved. You might be wondering how much money the Trevi Fountain collects on a daily basis. The answer is around 3, euros , which the city of Rome uses to fund social projects. Visitors are always surprised to discover that this monumental and incredibly beautiful fountain, which stands in praise of water and of life itself, is in fact nestled within a small piazza between narrow streets.
The water that feeds this Baroque fountain originally came from the Acqua Vergine, an aqueduct built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in the year 19 BC to bring water from the hills to Rome. Legend says that a beautiful young woman showed the location of the natural spring to some Roman soldiers.
The spring originates some 22 km from Rome and to this day still supplies the city with around 80, cubic metres of water daily. The aqueducts were destroyed by the Goths in the year and the Romans of the time were forced to extract water from contaminated wells and from the Tiber, which was also used as a sewer.
Before that, however, Pope Urban VIII had already asked the sculptor and architect Bernini to draw up plans these were later abandoned. And before that, Pietro da Cortona created a model of the fountain. Its position right against the Palazzo Poli lends it a greater dramatic impact.
In the centre is a statue of Oceanus not Neptune, as is commonly believed , and in front of him two tritons by the sculptor Pietro Bracci : the left represents the turbulent sea, and the right the calm sea. The figures in the rectangular recesses at either side of Oceanus are symbols of health the young woman who discovered the Acqua Vergine spring, holding a cup which a snake drinks from and abundance Agrippa giving his approval for the design of the aqueduct and letting water spill from his urn.
0コメント