Trevi Fountain to be paid for by tourists, will yield 6 million a year
From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday 2 February, 6,406 people entered the area, of whom 86 were residents of Rome and the metropolitan city
To guarantee 'a more orderly experience, an easier stay in the area and, in general, a improvement in the quality of the visit to one of the most important monuments of Rome and of the Italian cultural heritage'. After a one-year trial period, which included a closed number and visitor flow control, tourists and non-residents will have to pay two euros for restricted access to the area overlooking the Trevi Fountain.
The flow of the first day
From 9am to 9pm on Monday 2 February, 6,406 people entered the area, 86 of them residents of Rome and the metropolitan city. The Capitoline administration estimates revenues of 6-7 million euro per year; admissions vary from 30,000 to peaks of 70,000 per day. On the other hand, access to the Trevi Fountain will remain free of charge for residents of the Capital and the metropolitan city upon presentation of an identity document, as well as for disabled persons and their accompanying person, minors under the age of six, and tourist guides. The ticket will be required from Monday to Friday from 11.30 a.m. to 10 p.m., and at weekends from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., with last admission at 9 p.m.
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Museums, five more to pay
With the proceeds, as Culture Councillor Massimiliano Smeriglio explains, the administration intends to 'give all the necessary attention to the fragility of Rome's monuments, 113 of which have been restored with Pnrr funds, and in the meantime allow the citizens of Rome and its province to enjoy the entire Capitoline museum system free of charge'. As of yesterday, in fact, the civic museums are totally free of charge for residents of Rome and the metropolitan city - upon presentation of their identity cards at the ticket office -, residents and students of the Roman universities, while five museums of the circuit that were previously free of charge become chargeable (at 7.5 euro full price, 6 euro reduced) for tourists and non-residents. These are the Giovanni Barracco Museum of Ancient Sculpture, the Carlo Bilotti Museum - Villa Borghese Orangery, the Pietro Canonica Villa Borghese Museum, the Napoleonic Museum, and the Villa of Maxentius. Tourists did not appear too bitter about the introduction of payment for access to the Fountain.
Onorato: we have been morose
'With two euros we were morose,' was the judgement of the Capitoline councillor for tourism, Alessandro Onorato, 'in New York they would have asked for 100 dollars. Besides, before here many people were bivouacking, eating or pretending to take a foot bath or a swim, now everything is tidy'. The barriers ('which are an abomination') will disappear. Very much against the entrance ticket to the Trevi Fountain is the archistar Massimiliano Fuksas. 'A very bad idea,' he commented, 'I would not even charge for the Pantheon, I would not charge for monuments. And if it were possible I wouldn't charge for the bus either, a solution not by chance proposed by the mayor of New York'.
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