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Trevi Fountain

Fontana di Trevi

The Trevi Fountain is the 18th-century monumental fountain at the end of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, set against Palazzo Poli in Rome's Trevi district.

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The Trevi Fountain is the display fountain of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, built after a competition that Pope Clement XII held in 1732, in which he chose the architect Nicola Salvi's project, and finished by Giuseppe Pannini, according to Rome's Sovrintendenza Capitolina. Set against Palazzo Poli, it is centred on a statue of Oceanus on a shell-shaped chariot drawn by two horses held by tritons. The fountain's official site says that since 2 February 2026 visitors who are not residents of Rome or its metropolitan city need a ticket to enter the inner perimeter beside the basin, that residents enter free with an identity document, and that the fountain stays visible free of charge outside visiting hours. The same site asks visitors not to sit on the edge of the basin or eat and drink inside the perimeter. This record is the fountain, not the surrounding piazza.