The famous Trevi fountain has officially reopened after several weeks of cleaning, and the municipality has decided to limit the number of simultaneous visitors to 400 from now on, the mayor of Rome, R., announced on Sunday.oberto Gualtieri. “400 people can be here at a time. The goal is to allow everyone to enjoy the best possible from the source, without multitudes no confusion,” said Gualtieri in front of the fountain, famous for the film “La Dolce Vita”, by Federico Fellini, with Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni.
He added that this figure could eventually be modified after a test phase, the duration of which he did not specify.
The mayor of the Italian capital also indicated that the municipality will study the possibility of establishing “a small entrance“to finance, among other things, the source maintenance. Claudio Parisi Presicceresponsible for cultural assets at the City Council of Rome, told AFP-TV that the work on municipal monuments is being carried out with the aim of “returning most of them to the city before the start of the jubilee” of the Catholic Church, which begins on December 24.
Three months duration
At the Trevi fountain “the work lasted three monthswith a great joint effort that allowed us to finish the works ahead of schedule. It was a meticulous job of cleaning, removing degradation elements, evil e lime scale“added Presicce.
This Sunday’s ceremony took place under a soft rainwith the presence of several hundreds of touristsmany of whom imitated the mayor, throwing a coin into the fountain. Traditionally, the numerous tourists – among 10.000 y 12.000 per day until now – they throw coins into the fountain and, under normal conditions, the authorities recover each week approximately 10.000 euros ($10,405) destined for the Caritas charity organization.
