Take a Lucky Flight to Trevi Fountain to Wish for Safe Travels Back to Rome / 🇮🇹 Italy

In Rome, a coin tossed into the Trevi Fountain while facing away from the water carries a wish to come back to the city. It is a small gesture at the end of a visit, at a fountain that fills much of the view from its square. If you are taking the Lucky Flight from home, use the photograph to imagine arriving at the edge of the open space. Pick something you would want to see again in Rome. It could be the fountain itself or the first street you would walk on when you return. Thinking of one place makes your wish feel like a return to a real city.

Open the photograph. Find the figure under the central arch and let your eye follow the rock and water down towards the square. Imagine standing where you can take in the facade.

Picture yourself turning your back to the fountain and tossing a coin towards the water. During this flight the gesture takes place in your imagination. Think of one thing you would like to see when you return to Rome.

Say that wish to yourself and look back at the photograph. Add the arrival stamp to the passport on this device. For a visit in person, use the city’s guide beside the photo to check how to enter the area nearest the basin.

The Trevi Fountain stands at the end of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, whose water supply links the monument with a much older history of Rome. The eighteenth-century design by Nicola Salvi gives the water a setting that is part building and part sculpture. In the photograph you can see the central figure, Oceanus, and the rocks below him where water comes into view. In the coin custom, you turn away from this view and make a wish to return to the city. That is why the photograph works as a starting point for the flight. First you take in the monument and the water. Then you picture looking away for a moment, with the next visit still in mind.