Fontana

The famous Trevi fountain was completed in 1762 but has a much longer, more complicated history.  Trevi or “tre vie” was the junction of three roads at the end of the ancient Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine named, according to legend, for a virgin girl who led Roman soldiers to a source of pure water 22km from Rome.
The fountain’s theme is “taming of the waters” and depicts Triton guiding the chariot of Oceanus (a Titan who came to be identified with the wild “Ocean Sea” of the Atlantic as opposed to Poseidon with the well-charted waters of the Mediterranean) as Oceanus tames the hippocamps (creatures from Greek mythology with the upper body of a horse and lower body of a fish and the namesake of a similar-looking structure in the brains of vertebrates.)Baroque Imagineers did a wonderful job of blending the fountain’s features in to the stone of the building behind it.
As soothing as the sound of the fountain is and as beautiful the artistry, the Trevi fountain was not the fountain I thought it was…