They want to limit the number of visitors at Rome’s Trevi Fountain

Alessandro Onorato said that the measure is intended to protect one of the most visited attractions in Rome against mass tourism.

They want to regulate the number of people who visit the Trevi Fountain every day: according to the plans, advance reservation would be introduced from next year, and at the same time visitors would have to buy a token entry ticket, for one euro per person. It would be free for the Romans.

It is the largest street fountain in Rome, inaugurated in 1762. The Trevi Fountain is still fed by the ancient Aqua Virgo aqueduct, in the middle of the sculpture complex that dominates the fountain’s basin stands the figure of the god Ocean, who bathed in the fountain in the famous scene of Anita Ekberg’s Federico Fellini’s Eight and a Half, but the Trevi Fountain is best known for that tourists who want to return to Rome throw small change into its waters.

Several thousand people are crowded in the narrow space in front of the Trevi Fountain, which is “not worthy of a place belonging to the historical and artistic heritage” – said Alessandro Onorato, who is also responsible for the series of extraordinary events of the Jubilee Holy Year 2025, for which around thirty million Italian and foreign visitors are expected to arrive to the capital.