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| The Trevi Fountain |
The Fontana
di Trevi (Trevi Fountain) is possibly one of the most recognisable
landmarks in Rome and is always incredibly busy with tourists. You reach the
fountain via a number of narrow roads, turning a corner to be greeted by an
explosion of stone and water.
The fountain is
actually the facade to the Palazzo Poli, but it’s the fountain most
visitors want to see. It was here in Roman Holiday that Hepburn’s character had her
hair cut and where Peck’s journalist attempted to borrow a camera from a young
child (played by the daughter of the film’s producer and director, William
Wyler), hoping to capture the most un-royal of moments.
There can’t be
many visitors who haven’t heard of the tradition of throwing a coin in the
fountain, over a shoulder, wishing you will return to Rome. The money collected
today is donated to charity. But who wouldn’t want to wish they’d return? The American
secretaries in the 1953 film Three Coins in the Fountain certainly did.
