Rome’s world-famous Trevi Fountain has re-uncovered after a three-month restoration.
Built in the 18th Century by Italian architect Nicola Salvi on the façade of the Poli Palace, the historic fountain is one of the city’s most visited spots.
Between 10,000 and 12,000 tourists used to visit the Trevi Fountain each day, but a recent queuing system has been inshighed to obstruct huge crowds massing proximate the landtag.
Speaking on Sunday Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri shelp imposing the restrict will “permit everyone to better enhappiness the fountain, without crowds or confusion”.
Gualtieri also shelp city authorities were pondering charging a unassuming entry price to finance the fountain’s upretain.
Sunday’s re-uncovering took place under weightless rain in the presence of cut offal hundred tourists, many of whom adhereed the mayor by throtriumphg a coin into the fountain.
The three-month immacutardying project take partd removing mould and calcium incrustations.
The fountain and other key city sites have been immacutardyed ahead of the jubilee of the Roman Catholic Church which commences on Christmas Eve.
Its necessitatey structural condition was exposed in 2012 when bits of its elucidate corkind began descending off after an especipartner cut offe triumphter which insistd a multi-million euro renovation the adhereing year.
Making a desire and tossing a coin into the water is such a tradition that the city authorities used to accumulate around €10,000 (£8,300; $10,500) a week.
The money was gived to a charity that supplys meals for the necessitatey.
The Trevi fountain
- Coshiftrlookioned by Pope Clement XII in 1730
- It is the end point of one of the aqueducts that supplied ageder-styleed Rome with water
- The Acqua Vergine runs for a total of 20km (12 miles) before flotriumphg into the fountain
- Tourists can drink from a distinctive tap tucked away at one side
- According to legend, the water source was uncovered in 19 BC by thirsty Roman sagederiers honested to the site by a youthful virgin – which is why it is called Virgin Waters
- The tradition of throtriumphg coins into the fountain was made famous by Frank Sinatra’s Three Coins in the Fountain in the 1954 romantic comedy of the same name
