La fontana in vendita 🇮🇹🇬🇧

in hive-184714 •  5 months ago 

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La foto che pubblico da un lato mette una certa tristezza ma dall'altro e' un segno dei tempi che passano.
Fontana di Trevi, Roma, uno dei luoghi piu' iconici al mondo.
Nessun turista che transita per la capitale si perde una visita alla fontana.

Oggi pero' a lato della stessa, suppongo l'amministrazione comunale (questa o qualcuna passata) ha posizionato una
macchinetta per cambiare banconote in spiccioli.
Il tutto per fare in modo che il turista possa lanciarne qualcuno nella fontana esprimendo un desiderio, come e' sempre stato.
Tutto pratico, tutto efficiente...ma anche un pochino triste.

In quella fontana ci fece il bagno l'oramai leggendaria Anitona nella dolce vita di Fellini, sotto gli occhi di una splendido Marcello Mastroianni.
Quella fu la fontana che l'immenso Principe De Curtis in arte Toto'
insieme a quell'altro lestofante di Peppino vendette ad un ignaro turista americano fingendo di esserne il proprietario.

Il lancio delle monetine nella fontana dovrebbe essere un gesto spontaneo, come e' sempre stato, quella macchinetta cambia soldi lo rende un po' meno romantico, capisco la praticita' ma qualcosa si e' perso in questi decenni.
Quella fontana resta comunque un luogo di desideri, di speranze, di innamorati che si giurano amore eterno.
Quella macchinetta...io non l'avrei messa.
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The photo I'm posting makes you feel sad on the one hand but on the other it's a sign of the times that are passing.
Trevi Fountain, Rome, one of the most iconic places in the world.
No tourist passing through the capital misses a visit to the fountain.

Today, however, next to it, I suppose the municipal administration (this or some past one) has placed a
machine for changing banknotes into small change.
All to ensure that the tourist can throw some into the fountain making a wish, as has always been the case.
All practical, all efficient... but also a little sad.

The now legendary Anitona in Fellini's Dolce Vita bathed in that fountain, under the eyes of a splendid Marcello Mastroianni.
That was the fountain that the immense Prince De Curtis aka Toto'
together with that other swindler Peppino he sold it to an unsuspecting American tourist pretending to be the owner.

Throwing coins into the fountain should be a spontaneous gesture, as it always has been, that money changing machine makes it a little less romantic, I understand the practicality but something has been lost in recent decades.
However, that fountain remains a place of desires, of hopes, of lovers who swear eternal love to each other.
That machine... I wouldn't have put it on.

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  ·  5 months ago 

Leave it to humans to spoil something as precious as that. SURELY they could have found a slightly more discreet place to locate such a man made monstrosity!

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In Kirstenbosch, the botanical gardens in the Western Cape of South Africa... there is a little pool in the shape of a bird which is located up a mountain path - "Lady Anne Barnard’s Bath" which also had legend attached to it (true or not - it was irrelevant) but people also used to throw coins into the little pool and make a wish... then, they banned people from doing that eventually because people were climbing into the pool and stealing the money lol.

Humans!

Come sempre, lo Stato interferisce nella cultura delle persone, ma sappiamo tutti perché lo fa.

bella storia.

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