| Log In | Sign In

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome » Blogs » Rome 2018 Part II - Fountains of Rome » Fontana di Trevi
Advertisement
« previous next »
Fontana di Trevi  
   

Fontana di Trevi

Fontana di Trevi is a masterpiece
Rome 2018 Part II - Fountains of Rome

March 25th 2018
You are not allowed to bathe in Fontana di Trevi If you have seen the movie La Dolce Vita you might want to pull an Anita Ekberg and wade into Fontana di Trevi and splash some water on someone who wish to stand in for Marcello Mastroianni. Our recommendation is simple: Don't! It is not permitted and you will face a pretty heft ... read more
Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome
Italian Flag Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more
Advertisement
Message Comment
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
Ake Och Emma
Ake Och Emma
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info
JoinedDecember 8th 2006Trips0
Last LoginApril 19th 2024Followers53
StatusBLOGGERFollows58
Blogs330Guestbook2,317
Photos9,577Forum Posts137
[photo=9770898]
[blogger=27950]

[photo=9770898] [blog=1012284] [blogger=27950]

Top PhotosBlog Map

Advertisement

5th May 2018

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I agree, Been there, it's awesome!
6th May 2018

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Fontana di Trevi
I see masterpieces like this Ake, and you are right it is a masterpiece, and reflect on the oodles of money the person who commissioned this fountain must have had. The result was not just a symbol of refreshment and cooling reflection...but an enduring symbol of power. How fortunate successive generations can enjoy such monuments, commissioned in marble to endure, magnificence that was only created to display their creator's patron's power and lavish excesses.
7th May 2018

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

We sure are fortunate
As you say we are fortunate to have wonders like Fontana di Trevi around us. But we are also double fortunate in that we also can afford, have the time and are in good enough health to travel. /Ake

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome » Blogs » Rome 2018 Part II - Fountains of Rome » Fontana di Trevi
Tot: 0.024s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 7; qc: 6; dbt: 0.0072s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.1mb