Rome’s famous and recently-restored Trevi Fountain attracts millions of visitors—sometimes seemingly all at once—and it also seems to attract what the city considers bad actors and undesirable behavior.
So the city has dispatched a corps of retired cops to patrol the site from 9 am to midnight, looking out for anyone dipping toes in the fountain, sitting on its edges, eating, littering, and especially jumping in. Those caught will face fines up to €240.
The program will run until mid-October, but could become permanent if successful. The 19th-century fountain, which is the Rome end of a 20-mile aqueduct, was built for Pope Clement XIII in 1730, but gained its greatest fame when Federico Fellini’s 1960 film featured Anita Ekberg cavorting in the fountain.
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