Trevi Fountain
It 'easy walk from the Barberini Metro station A and station B line closest to the Coliseum from here you can take a bus towards Via del Corso / Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Colonna all'latezza down. The fountain is located on the right into Via delle Muratte. Trevi's Fountain opera has a majestic setting where the theme is the sea: the fountain was made in the form of an explosion of shells and sea creatures, in all their splendor and fairs in their perfection, tritons and sea horses on all dominated by the figure next to the ocean where there are statues of Wholesomeness and Abundance.
The history of the construction of the fountain is quite turbulent and as with other works during the seventeenth century, underwent the ongoing conflict between Bernini and Borromini, as well as between the Barberini and Pamphili families of two expressions of the families most important in the era , in fact, able to appoint Popes as well as religious and secular hierarchies by placing family members in decisive political structures of the time. Trevi Fountain underwent a change of jobs and a boost with the election to the pontificate of Pope Clement X in 1730 shortly after it announced a competition for realizzione work. The tender was won by Nicoḷ Salvi project, while failing to see the work completed as a result of his death, gave the decisive impulse to the creation and the footprint of the fountain. The Trevi Fountain is known throughout the world for two main factors. One is the success of this film: it was filmed in the Fountain the famous scene in the film La Dolce Vita with Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. The second is the legend of the coin toss: toss a coin into the fountain and at the same time expressing a desire that will cause it certainly will come true. Finally, the archaeological stratification present in all of Rome has made it below the fountain there is a real city water, daughter of the original aqueduct built in Roman times. Visit the city water is a fascinating journey into the past of Roman history.