A massive walking day, our 2nd in Rome. We are here for such a short time, 8 days, that there is no way we can justify the rest days like we had in Florence. We must find the Trevi Fountain, and like every new tourist to a city, every massive fountain we come to in every Piazza, we think, "is this it?" Quite hilarious that neither of us have looked at images, and so we are completely unprepared when we round the corner of what really is a teeny-tiny square to this massively beautiful white marble hugeness, aglow in night lights with sparkling blue waters.
A restoration has just been completed, funded by Karl Lagerfeld and the House of Fendi. Mythical figures, wild horses, Neptune in a shell-shaped chariot. Tritons. It takes up an entire side of a Palazzo. The water comes from the underground aqueduct and Trevi means Tre Vie, the 3 roads its at the confluence of.
Can you tell I'm looking a little harried by the pace we're currently on? By the end of our time here, Rome will have done me in!
€3000 per day worth of coins is tossed into the fountain, the superstition the belief it will guarantee your return to Rome. The money goes to Caritas, a Catholic charity. In 2002, scandal: it was discovered that an unemployed man had been helping himself for 34 years! Laws were upgraded.
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