Fontana di Trevi (Trevi Fountain)

Hellooo there my peeps. How’s it going over there? Well, let me just say this for the last time because I think this convo is getting a tad bit too boring. It’s still bloody cold here in Italy!!!! Now it should be spring hence getting warmer and sunnier. I guess sweet Mother Nature is still having her beauty sleep and her alarm is broken. If you know where she lives please for the sake of the entire humanity, give her a ”wake-up call” … pun intentionally intended! Aaaanyho … today we have a travel vlog on Fontana di Trevi. This is where my love story ❝APPARENTLY❞ started.

Brief History of Fontana Di Trevi:

The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy. The designer was an Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini and several others. Standing 26.3 meters (86 ft) high and 49.15 meters (161.3 ft) wide. It is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. (For more info, Wikipedia is your friend😉 )

The fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Roman Holiday (1953), the eponymous Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Federico Fellini‘s La Dolce Vita (1960), and The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003).

Coin throwing.

Coins are purportedly meant to be thrown using the right hand over the left shoulder. According to legend, tossing one coin into the Trevi Fountain means you’ll return to The Eternal City (Rome). Tossing two coins means you’ll return and fall in love. Tossing three coins means you’ll return, find love, and marry.

Now you know just how many coins you need to toss lest you make some bad choices😁😁 ….. and you are most welcome. The picture below I captured as this bride was walking from the fountain with her lover. I wonder if they met there and decided to revisit their past. Che romantico!

I was lucky I got to visit this place before the ”pandemia” when the place was still bustling with people. I mean, it’s the noise, the bustling activities, the crowding and all which makes the place even more glamorous and touristic. As I was passing by the fountain, the other day, it was deserted. No one on sight. Now you just have to view from afar the fountain as the perimeter walls are now extended towards the road . Like gee, thanks Corona, you f***ed us all real good!!!

I hope you enjoyed reading through and I hope that you get to visit Fontana di Trevi at some point in your life. In case you haven’t, because it’s just a beautiful place to visit. For more places to visit in Italy, check out my other blogs on Matera (a must-visit) and Cascata Delle Marmore.

Fave quote …

❝Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw – whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam – felt simply like a name on a list that I needed to check off.❞

— Jojo Moyes

Till the next blog, I hope to have you back. Stay safe and stay glam.

Baci Baci 💋 .