Tourist caught carving name on Trevi Fountain

Rome, Sept. 15: A female Dutch tourist was caught by the Italian police carving her name with a pocket knife on the 17th century Trevi Fountain in the Italian capital, Rome. She was charged with damaging monuments but was not arrested. The tourist told Italian authorities on Mon-day she did not know it was forbidden to carve inscriptions into the monument. Meanwhile, early on Tuesday in the nearby Spanish Steps or Piazza Di Spagna, an English tourist was fined by the Italian police when caught swimming in the 17th century Fountain of the Old Boat or Fontana della Barcaccia. The fountain was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII and was completed in 1627 by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The English tourist mistakenly thought the fountain was the one used by Anita Ekberg in the 1960’s film La Dolce Vita by Italian... [read full story]                    

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