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\n\tRome has unveiled its latest tactic to curb over-tourism: a \u20ac2 ($2.35) entrance fee for close-up access to the Trevi Fountain.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe measure will take effect on February 1 and be enforced daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Friday. The iconic fountain will remain visible from a distance free of charge, but visitors seeking a closer view will be required to purchase a ticket. The Italian capital previously implemented restrictions around the 18th-century Baroque monument to mitigate crowding, including a 400-person capacity limit at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to Gualtieri, \u00a0an average of 30,000 people visited the Trevi Fountain each day in 2025, amounting to\u00a0roughly 9 million tourists between January 1 and December 8. City officials estimate the new fee could generate about $7.6 million per year\u2014funds that would significantly ease mounting maintenance costs for Rome\u2019s fragile heritage sites across public spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tLast year, the centuries-old fountain was drained in preparation for the Vatican\u2019s Jubilee year, a process that exposed calcium build up and rust around its metal fittings, which required cleaning and conservation.<\/p>\n
\n\tRome has also introduced entry fees at several other cultural sites, including the imperial Villa of Maxentius, the Napoleonic Museum, the Barracco Museum, the Carlo Bilotti Museum, and the Pietro Canonica Museum. Tickets at some of these locations will cost up to \u20ac5 ($6), officials said. Entry will remain free for Rome residents.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe believe that culture is a fundamental right of citizenship,\u201d Gualtieri said on Friday. \u201cIt is right and positive that the citizens of Rome can enjoy our museums free of charge.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tItaly\u2019s tourism pressures are well documented, with millions of visitors flooding its museums and monuments each year\u2014occasionally to careless consequences. In June, a visitor to Florence\u2019s Uffizi Gallery tripped backwards while posing for a selfie in front of an 18th-century portrait, making a small tear in the canvas. That same month, a tourist at the Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona sat on and crushed Van Gogh Chair<\/em>,\u00a0a Swarovski Crystal-encrusted sculpture by Nicola Bolla. In 2021, an American tourist to Rome\u2019s Galleria Borghese tripped and fell into a painting by Guido Reni.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rome has unveiled its latest tactic to curb over-tourism: a \u20ac2 ($2.35) entrance fee for close-up access to the Trevi Fountain. The measure will take effect on February 1 and be enforced daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced on Friday. The iconic fountain will remain visible from a distance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 15:39:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}