Rome inaugurates the walkway over the Trevi Fountain

MADRID 9 Nov. () –

The mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, inaugurated this Saturday the provisional walkway designed to manage the enormous flow of visitors to the Trevi Fountain in the Italian capital until the restoration works are completed.

No more than 130 people will be able to cross the structure, which offers a new way to enjoy one of the city’s most famous monuments. “At the entrance to the walkway there is a carpet counting people,” Gualtieri said, according to the AGI news agency.

“With this gateway, in fact, we are also experimenting with quotas, an initiative that we have decided to take to allow better use of the source,” he added.

The restoration works have already provided the first curious fact, since 10,000 euros in coins have been collected from the bottom of the additional pond that has been installed next to the monument to avoid damage to the sculptures with the coins and that have already served for Caritas of feeding more than 1,000 people.