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It was so amazing to be there last summer! I mean 2019. I always expected the walkways in front of that all to be bigger. But it seem like you accidentally turned a corner and stumbled on some magnificent fountain. We ended up four times there in three days. It was beautiful. Can’t wait to see it again in 2022
Hi Nick and thanks for watching and commenting! As one of the first 3 people who commented on my first video of 2021, you have won a free gift from my shop! Please come over to the website and take a look: www.romewise.com/shop.html Then write me at elyssa@romewise.com Yes, it's a funny thing about the fountain that it's in such a small square. I go over that on the website :) Thanks again for watching and Happy New Year!
I can't believe I've been there several times and never knew about the aqueduct near Trevi fountain. I've passed it so many times. Thanks for sharing this.
I’ve been to Rome 3 times and I’ve obviously visited the Trevi Fountain 3 times but I didn’t know its history until I watched your video. I now know what to focus on next time I’m in Rome! Thanks for sharing :)
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Yes, I remember when it was being restored. I know a lot of people were disappointed. Today it's really beautiful. I hope you can come back and see it. Thanks for watching my video!
There’s a piece that respighi an Italian composer made about the fountains in rome, and this was one of the fountains that he made a movement for “Trevi fountain respighi” is a good way, to find the piece it is amazing.
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A very educational video which refreshed my memory a lot about the fountain & Italy & also learned more from you !! Thank you for this video ! Stay safe !!!👍👍😃🇮🇹💖💜💜💜🥁🐉🎤🎵🎶💕💞
thank you so very much. i ADORE ITALY specially ROME. Italian lovely & kind ,every time I am there ,I come home with such good feeling seeing old & new together.
Thank you so much for this very informative video. I've benn to Rome a few times and we just love to explore, never with a tour guide and to finally hear some history about the Trevi Fountain makes it even more magical. Out of curiosity when did you film this video I see a few people with masks and other without? is it optional/recommended to wear masks outside in Rome?
Thanks a lot for watching! Yes I think most people don't realize how much history there is behind the Trevi Fountain. We think of the Colosseum or Pantheon as being ancient and they are, but the roots of this fountain are also fascinating even if the actual sculpture is fairly "modern". As to your question about the masks - When I made this video we did not have a mask mandate. We'd fairly recently come out of lockdown, there were visitors from other parts of Italy and Europe, and things seemed to be getting better (the rate of infections had gone way down). Since I shot this footage, Italy issued a mask mandate - they must always be worn outdoors unless you are exercising or eating/drinking, or if you are a child under 6. The mandate is still in place and police do fine transgressors from 400€ and up. I hope we can all get back to better times soon! Thanks again for watching.
Very Nice 🫶🏻 Well presented … Enjoyed listening to the History and meaning of ea sculpture that makes the total of the Trevi Fountain ⛲️ Nice to know where the coins go when collected
Great video…you may consider adding the stories pertaining to the blind window frescoed to the facade of the ducal palace as you see on the upper right side.
I am from India, I came to know about this (Trevi fountain) from Indian newspaper, after searching on RU-vid, found your video, but in the video we are not able to understand your language and I am very curious to know about its interesting facts. Please make a video in Indian language about this lake (Trevi Fountain) and upload it on RU-vid. I hope you ❤
Thank you so much for watching my video. I am sorry you were not able to understand me. Unfortunately, I do not speak Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, or any other Indian language. I would not be able to make any videos in these or similar languages. Please watch this video to see how to generate subtitles in a language you can follow: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xxh3dFMRuoE.html
@@Romewise Thanks so much for helping me with the subtitle change. You can teach me Italian language and if you agree I will teach you some Indian language 😊♥️
My pleasure! I hope you will continue to watch my videos if you enjoy them. I can't help with Italian but you may find this page useful: www.romewise.com/easiest-way-to-learn-italian.html Best wishes! @@rajumodicrown4592
I've missed visiting ROMA during lockdown.....last holiday went to wonderful concert at AMERICAN EMBASSY music by Italian composer ADA GENTILE. not well known outside Italy. But worth investigating if you like modern classical music..
In Rome we have a lot of false windows for various reasons (often simply aesthetic), but I have not heard about someone jumping out of one of these windows above the Trevi Fountain. But it's possible. Thanks for watching!
I filmed most of it post Covid-lockdowns. The opening shot is during Covid when there was nobody in Rome. Yes, it's much more crowded now, although you can sometimes find it less crowded very late at night/early in the morning, or in winter (not during the holidays) when Rome is a little less crowded. On the other hand, it seems as if Rome barely has a low season any more!
Me, having lived in New Orleans & San Francisco, looking at all these intact intricate sculptures: “There must not be any hurricanes or earthquakes over in Italy.”
I hear you, and also lived in San Francisco through a few earthquakes. But in fact Rome and other parts of Italy are indeed prone to earthquakes. We had them in ancient times, resulting in the destruction of parts of the Colosseum, and in more recent times, as you may have read about, in which some towns near Rome were nearly wiped out. Luckily many of our buildings and artworks have survived but not everything.
In the Film Mohagony you can see Diana Ross amazed at the sights of Rome as she see's the Temple of Saturn The Roman Forum the Arch of Triumph and The Roman Colisseum and the Modern Day Italian Parliament Building and The Trevi Fountain as she cruises by on a taxicab as a rider with the background song Do you know where you're going to ? Sort of like a Quo Vadis.
According to Acea, the Italian water utility that takes care of the fountain, their teams go in 3x a week to do a general cleaning, and 2x a month, they empty it nearly completely to disinfect the water. These usually happen early morning.
What I'm showing at 1:30 is the remains of the aqueduct in the basement of the Rinascente department store. This piece does not bring water. They excavated it and made a beautiful display in the basement. What you are seeing is a kind of short light show that gives a very brief illustrated history of the aqueduct.
FIVE streets end up at Fontana di Trevi, not three as you wrote in the video. If, according to you there are three streets ending up at Fontana di Trevi, please name them and explain why you ignore the other two. Thank you.
Historically, the place where this fountain was built originally, long before it became the fountain you see today, was called a trivio, a junction where three streets met. There may be more smaller streets leading to the piazza today, but at the time, there were only 3.
Three streets meet or intersect as you said in your video? A careful examination of the map shows that there are indeed three streets that INTERSECT at the piazza. They arrive there and continue after the piazza in a straight line. @@Romewise
I don’t get it So the video says “All about the Trevi fountain” which includes how it came to be named but then she says that story is a Myth? ok then what’s the real story how it was named Aqua Virgo if it’s a myth? How do u know it’s not true? Why do some ppl always have to imply some stories about history are lies but don’t provide anything to disprove why it isn’t the truth? I mean they say Rome was named for Romulus, who was nursed and raised by a female wolf with his brother, which sounds crazy but why take the narrative away without providing an alternative?
Founding myths and creation myths are an integral part of many cultures' lores, especially when we talk about things that happened before there was reliable record-keeping. Sometimes the myths have a small basis in fact if there is something specific we know. For example, while I didn't discuss it in this video, the founding myth of Romulus and Remus is based on the idea of a "lupa", or she-wolf, suckling them to help them survive. We do know that the word "lupa" in Latin also referred to a prostitute. So while it is not very likely that twin babies would have been rescued by a nursing she-wolf, their being rescued by a woman who happened to be a prostitute makes more sense, if, in fact, these twins ever existed. And the myth of the virgin maiden as it relates to the finding of the original source of the water that feeds the Trevi Fountain is just that - a myth, because there is no empirical evidence for it, so we cannot call it fact. I spoke about the origin of the word Trevi Fountain as having come from the "tre vie", or "three streets" that meet here, so that is not a myth, it is etymology.
That is interesting - it may have been your perspective at the time - maybe because there were fewer people? The basin is the original one designed by Bernini and it hasn't changed in hundreds of years :) But I can see that maybe because of the crowds, it might look different than when you saw it!
Regarding the, about taking his wife to Italy and not telling her; no wife or g-friend in the world would allow her husband to take her on a oversea plane not knowing the weather what she should wear, what she should bring along etc. etc. A struggling writer obviously.
I’m watching this because of a video I just seen where activists were pouring ink into this beautiful fountain. It’s ver sad to hear this was/is the only aqueduct left, and people poured ink into it. Sad
“Competitions” to design these old world buildings was SO common Maybe we ought to get these comps happening again….. These Amateur designs put our “professionals” to shame
