The story of this place
The Trevi Fountain marks the terminus of the Aqua Virgo, an aqueduct built by Agrippa in 19 BC that still supplies its water. Nicola Salvi designed the theatrical Baroque masterpiece, completed in 1762, showing the sea-god Oceanus in a shell chariot drawn by tritons and sea-horses against the wall of Palazzo Poli. Tradition says a coin tossed over the left shoulder ensures a return to Rome—visitors throw in roughly €1.5 million each year, collected and donated to charity. Anita Ekberg's midnight wade through its waters in Fellini's 1960 film 'La Dolce Vita' made it a global icon of Roman glamour and la dolce vita itself.