The Fascinating Roots of the Fountain

Hundreds of classic Greek documents were translated into Latin under the authority of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. Continuing in his quest to make the city deserving of being called the seat of the Christian world, he decided to embellish the beauty of the city as well. In 1453 he initiated the rebuilding of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from many miles away. The mostra, a monumental commemorative fountain constructed by ancient Romans to mark the point of arrival of an aqueduct, was a practice also revived by Nicholas V. The fascinating origins of the Trevi Fountain go back to an older fountain he had commissioned to the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The water you can look here which ultimately supplied the Trevi Fountain, as well as the renown baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona, came from the renovated and altered aqueduct.