Designed by Nicola Salvi, who based his work on the original work of Bernini, it took about thirty years to be completed. From 1732 when it was commissioned by Pope Clement XII to Salvi, to 1762. Unfortunately, Salvi did not live to see the completion of his work. The Trevi Fountain is located in the Quirinale district and is the masterpiece of the small Trevi square. Its name (Trevi Fountain) derives from its location at the intersection of three roads (tre vie).

The history of the fountain:

It's located at the cross of three roads at the end of the Acqua Vergine, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to Rome.
In 19 BC Romans located a source of water at 13km from the city, and builded an acueduct to bring it into the city, the actual length of the aqueduct was arround 22km.
This water filled the Baths of Agrippa for more than four hundred years until the fell of the Roman Empire when the Goths in 538 finally broke the aqueducts.
After that, Romans used water from polluted wells and from the Tiber, which was also used as a sewer.
In 1453, Pope Nicholas V rebuilt the broken aqueduct and built a simple basin at the end, designed by the architect Leon Battista Alberti.

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