Italy’s budget deficit yawns but the Trevi Fountain rakes it in

July 25th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The figures were released by Caritas, the Catholic charity which collects the
coins and uses the money to buy food for the homeless.

In the first six months of the year, with the summer tourist season barely
underway, 540,000 worth of coins were recovered from the fountain, weighing
more than 17,000kg.

If the trend continues, more than a million euros will have been fished out of
the popular tourist attraction by Christmas.

That compares with 838,000 euros recovered in 2010 and 951,000 euros in 2011.

Tourists flip not just euros but foreign coins, and those too have risen in
number this year.

Commissioned by Pope Clement XII and finished in 1732, the centrepiece of the
huge work is a figure of Neptune on a chariot being pulled by two rearing
horses.

The fountain ranks with the Colosseum as being one of the most celebrated
tourist attractions in the capital.

It is described by one guide book as “a magnificent rococo extravaganza of
rearing sea horses, conch-blowing tritons, craggy rocks and flimsy trees.”

Its name is a corruption of ‘tre vie’ or ‘three roads’ – it has long been the
intersection of important routes into Rome.

Concern was raised over the state of the monument in June when chunks of
stucco fell from its facade.

An Italian mineral water company stepped forward to say it would pay the
estimated €200,000 (£162,200) cost of repairing the damage, caused by an
unusual period of snow and freezing temperatures last winter.