Filmography

* A scene shot in 1953 in "Roman Holiday" with Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert.
* "Three Coins in the Fountain".
* A scene of Anita Ekberg in Federico Fellini's "La dolce vita".
* Several scenes in "The Lizzie McGuire Movie".
* Several scenes in "Sabrina Goes to Rome".
* Some scenes in the Chinese series "Triumph in the Skies".
* A scene in the 'Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen' Movie "When in Rome".
* A scene in "Elsa y Fred" with Manuel Alexandre and China Zorrilla.

Throwing three coins:

A traditional legend holds that if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome.
Other vertion says that three coins should be thrown into the Fountain to folow the tradition, bun no much people know that those three coins were thrown by three different individuals
An actual interpretation of that tradition is that two coins will ensure a marriage will happen soon, while the third coin leads to a divorce.
The lucky way to throw the three coins is: with your right hand over your left shoulder into the fountain.
Near 3,500 Euros are thrown and collected from the fountain every day.

Description

The Trevi Fountain is one of the largest of Rome (25.9 m high and 19.8 m wide).

The fountain is over the Palazzo Poli, with giant Corinthian pilasters.

2 Tritons guide Neptune's chariot, taming seahorses.

In the center there's a robustly triumphal arch. The center niche or exedra frames Neptune.

In the niches flanking Neptune:
Abundance spills water from her urn.
Salubrity holds a cup from which a snake drinks.

Above, bas reliefs illustrate the Roman origin of the aqueducts.

The fountain today:

The Pope Urban VIII, in 1629, decided to improve the fountains dignity and asked Bernini to propose possible renovations, but the Pope died and the idea was abandoned.
Bernini's remainings idea was to relocate the fountain from it's original position, to the other side of the square, so it faces the Quirinal.
But there are other many Berninis ideas in the fountain as it was finally built.
The Pope Clement XII, In 1730, made a contest in which Salvi initially lost to Galilei, but due to the outcry in Rome over the fact that a Florentine won, Salvi was awarded the commission.
The works began in 1732, and the fountain was finished in 1762.
Salvi died in 1751, before his work was finished.
The Trevi Fountain was finished in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini.

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.

There is no doubt that the Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is one of the most popular and photographed fountains in the world. It’s one of those thing you find in Rome that make you ask … What the hell were all the artist in my city doing all this years? If it wasn’t for all the tourist disturbing and making noise during most of the day (that included me of course) you could stay there for hours contemplating those marvelous statues an listening to the water falling pristine into the huge basin of the fountain..