“The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city.” (Source | Wikipedia)

Building Type: Fountain.

Public transport:
Take the subway A line until Barberini Fontana di Trevi, then walk down via del Tritone until crossing via della Stamperia on your left. Follow via della Stamperia until Piazza di Trevi. The walk is just slightly longer than 600 metres. If you don’t want to walk that muchs, take bus 175 from the Termini Station and get of at Tritone/Fontana di Trevi stop. This way you will shorten your walk by about 300 metres.

Admission fee:
Free

One of the first things you’ll notice about the Trevi Fountain – or Fontana di Trevi in Italian – is that it’s downright enormous. At 85 feet high and 65 feet wide, it’s the biggest fountain in the entire city of Rome. A fountain was originally built on this spot in the mid-15th century, when the tradition of building fountains to mark the end point of an acqueduct was rekindled, but this has always been the terminus of one of Rome’s ancient acqueducts – the Acqua Vergine. The acqueduct was destroyed by invaders in the 6th century, but repaired in the 15th century by order of the Pope when the first fountain was built. The Trevi Fountain you see today, which was completed in 1762, is still served by that same Acqua Vergine acqueduct.