Rome is considering limiting access to the Trevi Fountain, one of its most visited monuments, ahead of a promising year for tourism in the Eternal City, city council officials said.
The Italian capital is preparing to host the 2025 Jubilee – or Holy Year – a year-long Roman Catholic event expected to attract 32 million tourists and pilgrims.
According to the project, visits to the Trevi Fountain would be carried out based on prior reservation, with fixed times and a limited number of people.
“For Romans, we are thinking of making visits free, while non-residents would be asked to make a symbolic contribution of one or two euros (equivalent to approximately 7-14 reais),” Rome’s tourism councilor Alessandro Onorato told Il Messaggero newspaper on Thursday (5).
On Wednesday (4), Mayor Roberto Gualtieri classified the measures to contain the number of tourists as “a very concrete possibility”.
“The situation at the Trevi Fountain is becoming technically very difficult to manage,” he told reporters.
Other cities are facing protests against the disruption caused by large-scale tourism, including Barcelona and Venice, where local authorities this year tested a system of charging visitors to enter the city.
The Trevi Fountain, where tradition dictates that visitors toss a coin to make a wish come true and ensure their return to Rome, has long been a major attraction, even for world leaders.
Completed in 1762, the monument is a Baroque masterpiece, with statues of tritons guiding the chariot of the god Oceanus, illustrating the theme of domination of the waters.
The tourist spot is also remembered for one of the most famous scenes in cinema, when in “La Dolce Vita”, by Federico Fellini, Anita Ekberg enters the fountain and waves for Marcello Mastroianni to join her: “Marcello! Come here!”.
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