The Trevi Fountain, or Fontana di Trevi in Italian, is the
largest Baroque fountain in Rome. It stands more than 85 feet
high and more than 65 feet wide. It is truly an amazing sight to
see. The fountain marks the ending point of an aqueduct
discovered in 19BC. To this day, it brings water to Rome from a
spring some 20 km outside the city. Legend has it, a virgin girl
led Agrippa’s soldiers to the spring and showed them the source
of pure water. The aqueduct is known as Aqua Virgo, named so
because of the virgin girl who revealed the water source. It is
said the water was originally brought into the city to supply
water to Marcus Agrippa’s baths located near the Pantheon he
built. The first fountain built to mark the ending point of the
aqueduct was commissioned by Pope Nicholas V in the mid 15th
century. Over time the aqueduct made to supply water to
Agrippa’s baths was turned off, and the fountain was built to
celebrate the reactivation of the ancient aqueduct. The first
fountain just wasn’t elaborate enoug