(22 Mar 2025)
ITALY SECRETS OF TREVI FOUNTAIN
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Rome, Italy – 19 March 2025
1. Various of the Trevi Fountain
2. Wide exterior two windows behind which the Manoeuvring Chamber is located
3. Various of the road Via della Scarperia and the door, which takes you to the Manoeuvring Chamber
4. Mid of a technician opening the door to the Manoeuvring Chamber
5. Wide pan inside the Manoeuvring Chamber
6. Wide inside the antique stagnation/decantation room with modern pipes connected to the Aqua Virgo to draw water directly from the aqueduct to quickly recharge the fountain during emptying operations
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Davide d’Alonzo, ACEA Aqueducts Rome:
“We are inside the decantation room of the Trevi Fountain. This basin, also known as a distribution tank, served exclusively to decant water to supply the richest families in the area. There was a distribution system of lead pipes that served the rich, very rich and less rich families. Based on the diameter of the pipes at the outlet, one could tell the importance of the family.”
8. Wide of a set of small tanks connected by lead piping embedded in concrete, in Italian called fistole
9. Various of the mouth of the system that supplied water to the city’s wealthy families
10. Tilt of large wooden plugs for capping fountain basins
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Rome, Italy – 6 March 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marco Tesan, ACEA Aqueducts Rome:
“These are wooden plugs that were used in antiquity to cap fountain basins, some think that they were also used to cap the ancient counter, i.e. the old calibrated mouths in the event when the user was in arrears”
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Rome, Italy – 19 March 2025
12. Various of spreadsheet with names of the users who were supplied with water from the stagnation/decantation room
13. Tilt of hydrometer from 1867
14. Tilt of nineteenth-century instruments used to monitor the level of the aqueduct
15. Pull focus showing inside the window to tourists outside, in front of the fountain
16. Wide of inside room with modern electric pumps powering the fountain, supplying 220l per second
17. SOUNDBITE (ITALIAN) Davide d’Alonzo, ACEA Aqueducts Rome:
“The Trevi fountain always operated with direct water from the Aqua Virgo until the early 1950s when people began to think that perhaps saving water was essential and the first recirculating pumps were installed.”
18. Mid of view through wire grid as water flows through pipes
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Rome, Italy – 6 March 2025
19 SOUNDBITE (Italian) Marco Tesan, ACEA Aqueducts Rome:
“We have a complex water treatment system, with a softener that essentially removes limescale from the water, followed by a reverse osmosis system that makes the water free of mineral salts. All this aims to make the water as neutral as possible. Operation is fully automated by multi-parametric control units and algorithms that work to ensure that the fountain functions properly.”
20. Wide of room where the water treatment system is held
21. Close of switchboard control with a flashing light on one of the dials
22. Mid of worker adjusting valve
23. SOUNDBITE (Italian)Marco Tesan, ACEA Aqueducts Rome:
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Rome, Italy – 19 March 2025
24. Zoom into a glass pane showing a modern water pipeline
25. Pan from inside/out the Manoeuvring Chamber – from the fountain to the people
26. Various of fountain outside as groups of visitors gather in the background
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