Ciao y'all! NaturallyKenya here and welcome back to my channel
in this video of my follow me series i'm taking you guys to Fontana di Trevi AKA the trevi
fountain i know many of you can't travel right now so i thought it would be a wonderful time to
take you back if you've already been to rome you know you can reminisce a bit and if not i can take
you along so it's like you've already been there but anyway follow me along the streets i'm just
walking here it's a beautiful day in rome and also I'll say a few fast facts while i'm there let's go
so obviously this is the oh-so-popular place the trevi fountain it is one of
the most iconic fountains in the world and obviously has been featured in many
films one of them being the Lizzie McGuire Movie from back in 2003
where Gordo and Lizzie make a wish and toss a coin in the fountain the first time i visited rome
the trevi fountain was completely closed and you can only throw a coin in this sad plastic
box if i have a video of it i'll put it here for you guys but it was absolutely absurd i was like
i cannot believe the first time i'm in rome i'm throwing a coin into a plastic box considering
the circumstances and all the closures due to the pandemic the crowd is a little less than usual
so before we get into these fun facts i just want to put a disclaimer i am not a historian i'm
a curious engineer construction started in 1732 and it was designed by architect nicola salvi it
is about 50 meters wide and 26 meters tall and is primarily composed of travertine stone as you can
see it's really white it reflects the light really well so there are a few theories behind the name
now the trevi fountain is located at the junction of three streets which is the major terminal point
of one of the aqueducts that supplies water to ancient rome the area around the fountain used
to be called trebium and there's no secret that the ancient romans were actually very skilled
engineers and the terminal point delivers drinking water to the city of Rome so it became one of the
most important aqueducts for the city it pours more than 79 million cubic liters of water per day
and i wanted to convert that to cubic feet for you guys because obviously i'm not a
metric expert that's 2.8 million cubic feet per day of water legend has it that we see coin
throwing technique if you actually toss one in the trevi fountain you will be coming back to rome
i can only speak for myself because it did work for me so the technique though is you have to use
your right hand over your left shoulder that's how it works so the main figure is actually neptune
god of the sea which you can see him here in the center and you can see that he is riding a
chariot with two seahorses i hope this gave you guys a bit of insight into the trevi fountain
and if you didn't know something i hope i taught you something but now i will take you guys with
a few shots around the trevi fountain so you can see the trevi fountain from all different angles
and basically have the experience of visiting the trevi fountain like you were here in rome
so it's actually crazy i haven't been here in so long and
now that i realize i have the whole fountain to myself
it makes me kind of sad because i realized that there's really not that many people here
i guess it really didn't hit me beforehand but you could never even step two feet around the
trevi fountain before the pandemic and now it's like i am here all by myself me and the birds look
me the birds and one two three four five five people over there
and a few people over here so maybe ten people total it's crazy it is like my own private VIP
tour of the city but it still kind of makes me sad that the tourism is non-existent these days
hey guys so i just finished my visit at the trevi fountain sorry it's so loud here i'm in
piazza venezia and now i'm gonna head back home but i just wanted to thank you all for joining me
Rome. I just wanted to thank you all for joining me on this adventure if you like this video
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