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The Trevi Fountain

Undoubtedly one of the images that struck me most of my visit to the city of Rome was the Trevi Fountain, a majestic fountain in the front of the Palazzo Poli in ending one of the many aqueduct that brought drinking water to the city of Rome.

The name "Fontana di tevi" comes from the Italian "tre vie" and it is located at the junction of three roads or Roman roads marking the end of the aqueduct that carried water from a spring located about 20 km from the city and reportedly was discovered by a virgin priestess Roman, so he called Acqua Virgo.

As was customary at the time, at the end of the aqueduct was built where a source able to supply more easily, so that built a battery that collects the water, although its appearance today is very different from the original source built around 19 BC

In fact, throughout history the original design of the source was varying, even he abandoned for more than 1000 years, coinciding with periods of decline and fall of the Roman Empire and the siege of the Goths.

The current source is designed by sculptor Nicola Salvi, who was commissioned to restore, expand and transform the original pool of water in a giant work of art by Pope Clement XII in 1732. Neither

Pope Clement XII (d. 1740) and Salvi sculptor (d. 1751) were completed to the source, as it was the sculptor Giuseppe Pannini, who gave the final touch on it in 1762 under Pope Clement XIII, thus becoming the largest Baroque fountain in the city.

The source can be seen in the center a large statue of Neptune riding on his chariot drawn by two Tritons fighting two sea horses, and that right is guarded by a statue of Abundance and left for Health.

In the upper frieze is the inscription:

CLEMENS XII PONT. MAX.

AQUAM VIRGINEM

COPY ET SALUBRITATE COMMENDATAM

cultural MAGNIFICO ORNAVIT

MDCCXXXV PONTIFICAL ANNO DOMINI. VI

It goes on to say that Pope Clement XII, and decorated the aqueduct brought water virgin (clean, clear and clean) committed to the abundance and health, for the wonderful worship the Lord in the year 1735, in the sixth year of his pontificate.

A little further down, we read the following inscription:

PERFECIT XIV BENEDICTUS PONT. MAX.

He puts that Benedict XIV, Pontifex Maximus, was appointed prefect.

And the last of the inscriptions we can see just above the 3 main statues is:

POSITIS SIGNIS ET ANAGLIPHIS TABULIS IUSSU Clementis XIII PONT. MAX. OPUS CUM AD MDCCLXII ABSOLUTUM cultural OMNI.

The translation is that Pope Clement XIII was ordered to place the statues and reliefs in this place, the work being completed in 1762.

The "tradition" of throwing a coin into the fountain is relatively recent, as it is in 1954 with the premiere of the film Three coins in the fountain, in which three girls throw a coin into the fountain to make your dreams come Actually, when you start with this kind of ritual that all tourists who pass by the fountain just doing.

is sitting with his back to the fountain and throw a coin in your right hand over your left shoulder if we return to Rome.
If we throw two, we ensure that we fell in love with a Roman / o, and if three coins, you get married with her / him in Rome.

The night lighting of both the source and the battery creates a play of shadows and reflections that attract more tourists almost throughout the day, when "thank you" to the sun is quite difficult to sit quietly and contemplate the source or cool with water from the Acqua Virgo flowing in the right area of \u200b\u200bthe source.