Rome's baroque masterpiece, fed by an aqueduct running since 19 BC — throw your coin and fund the city's charities.
Explore → Get Early AccessBaroque theater in water and travertine, filling its little piazza edge to edge — you hear it before you see it, then turn a corner into the most famous fountain on earth. Go at dawn or near midnight; the crowds are the price of the legend.
Built 1732–1762 at the end point of the ancient Aqua Virgo aqueduct — water that has flowed into Rome since 19 BC. Nicola Salvi's design turned a utility terminal into Oceanus riding a shell chariot through a palace wall.
About €1.5 million in coins lands in the water yearly, collected for Caritas charity. One coin over the left shoulder promises a return to Rome; the ritual predates La Dolce Vita, but Anita Ekberg's wade made it eternal.
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