Funny business in Rome !
Hello again from Rome, where summer has been now hitting us in full !
Opportunity knocks at the door all the time. Consider 1.200 euro cash flow per day with no cost and almost no risk (unless police gets you).
Now think about a summer afternoon in Rome, your promenade is interesting but it is quite warm all around so you would like to refresh yourself going to the beautiful Trevi Fountain. Of course you are not the only one. There seems to be thousands of people and as legend says, they throw a single coin over the shoulder to guarantee they will come back to the Eternal City.
Let me just guess what you are planning :
Option 1- You want to take a dip ? Just like in the famous Italian movie La Dolce Vita, when a beautiful Anita Ekberg happily splashes around the Trevi Fountain.
OR
Option 2 – And allow me to say you would not be a pioneer by having such an impure thought -
The Trevi’s most famous coin thief was nicknamed ‘d’Artagnan’, a 50-year-old Roman who raided the fountain for more than 30 years before the law cracked down on him in 2002 and banned him from the square.
The musketeer, whose nickname derived from his long, sword-like magnet, gained worldwide news coverage with his tricks including a front-page slot on the New York Times.
At the peak of the tourist season, he was reported to have scooped out an impressive 22 kilos of coins from the fountain in just fifteen minutes.
The police eventually caught him and sadly for us, patrols have since been increased in the very Trevi area so you would need to be supersonic to get away with it…
About the Trevi Fountain : Not only ambition attracts crazy people to the monument. The Fountain has also lured imitators of screen beauty Anita Ekberg, who made a legendary dip into its waters in the 1959 Federico Fellini movie La Dolce Vita. In 2007 , a youth risked his life by diving from the highest part of the Baroque monument headlong into its shallow waters.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome, designed to replace an older fountain dating back to the 1450s, was created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona in the 17th-century and is one of the main atractions of Rome.
Read about the Trevi Fountain that turned red : Lady in red !
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