https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Red wine flowing from a fountain, offering a refreshment at the end of a long walk... it sounds too good to be true, but on Sunday, a wine fountain was inaugurated in central Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20161012/the-first-wine-fountain-just-opened-in-italy-and-its-free Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:47:39 +0200 the-first-wine-fountain-just-opened-in-italy-and-its-free A man who took 60 cents from a public fountain in Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, has been handed a one-year suspended sentence by a local court. https://www.thelocal.it/20160912/fountain-thief-sentenced-to-1-year-for-stealing-60-cents Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:23:26 +0200 fountain-thief-sentenced-to-1-year-for-stealing-60-cents Cooling off with a midnight dip in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain may sound like a dream "Roman Holiday", but an Italian police crackdown has landed a series of splash-happy tourists with fat fines. https://www.thelocal.it/20160726/rome-cracks-down-on-splash-happy-fountain-dippers Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:54:35 +0200 rome-cracks-down-on-splash-happy-fountain-dippers Plenty of people have made insipid imitations of the famous scene from Federico Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’, in which the late Swedish actress Anita Ekberg wades flirtatiously into Rome’s Trevi Fountain, beckoning her co-star, Marcello Mastroianni, to join her. https://www.thelocal.it/20160722/ekberg-wannabe-wanted-to-pay-homage-to-rome-with-trevi-dip Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:33:27 +0200 ekberg-wannabe-wanted-to-pay-homage-to-rome-with-trevi-dip A mystery woman shocked watching tourists on Tuesday morning when she waded into Rome's Trevi Fountain in a bid to recreate an iconic scene from Federico Fellini's 1960 film 'La Dolce Vita'. https://www.thelocal.it/20160719/another-woman-wades-into-trevi-fountain-to-rehash-la-dolce-vita-scene-rome-italy Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:17:24 +0200 another-woman-wades-into-trevi-fountain-to-rehash-la-dolce-vita-scene-rome-italy Rome residents have reacted angrily after three tourists were snapped frolicking in one of their city's historic fountains while wearing bikinis and swimsuits. https://www.thelocal.it/20160711/three-tourists-take-a-dip-in-17th-century-rome-fountain Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:03:17 +0200 three-tourists-take-a-dip-in-17th-century-rome-fountain Shimmering models wearing the latest creations by Fendi appeared to walk on water Thursday at a fairytale show in Rome's Trevi fountain to mark the luxury fashion house's 90th anniversary. https://www.thelocal.it/20160708/fendi-models-walk-on-water-in-romes-trevi-fountain Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:44:56 +0200 fendi-models-walk-on-water-in-romes-trevi-fountain Hundreds of tourists converged on the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Tuesday evening to witness it gush once again with water after a €2 million makeover paid for by the fashion house, Fendi. https://www.thelocal.it/20151103/romes-trevi-fountain-springs-back-to-life Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:30:53 +0100 romes-trevi-fountain-springs-back-to-life Its elaborate Baroque facade now sparkles in the sun, scaffold-free: Rome's Trevi Fountain will gush its emerald waters once again on Tuesday after a clean-up funded by Italian fashion house Fendi. https://www.thelocal.it/20151103/romes-trevi-fountain-opens-after-fendi-makeover Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:23:11 +0100 romes-trevi-fountain-opens-after-fendi-makeover Rome's famous Trevi fountain has been taken over by a colony of rats, who exit from its drains at dusk each day. https://www.thelocal.it/20150720/romes-trevi-fountain-invaded-by-rats Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:14:25 +0200 romes-trevi-fountain-invaded-by-rats A tourist has been photographed bathing in a fountain near St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, prompting outrage from Italians. https://www.thelocal.it/20150603/tourist-bathes-half-naked-in-venice-fountain Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:08:20 +0200 tourist-bathes-half-naked-in-venice-fountain A group of French tourists have been fined after they were caught dancing semi-naked in a priceless fountain in Rome’s Monti district. The whole scene was caught on camera. https://www.thelocal.it/20141022/tourists-fined-for-dancing-semi-naked-in-roman-fountain Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:19:00 +0200 tourists-fined-for-dancing-semi-naked-in-roman-fountain Italian actress Valeria Marini has been fined €160 for stepping into Rome's Trevi Fountain in a bid to mimic a scene from Federico Fellini's 1960s classic, La Dolce Vita. https://www.thelocal.it/20131112/actress-fined-for-la-dolce-vita-fountain-stunt Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:30:00 +0100 actress-fined-for-la-dolce-vita-fountain-stunt