Rome International Film Festival
Anita Ekberg arrives on the red carpet before the screening of a digitally restored version of the 1960 classic film "La Dolce Vita" during the 5th Rome International Film Festival in Rome on October 30, 2010. Ekberg is best known for her role as Sylvia in the film, which features the legendary scene of her cavorting in Trevi Fountain. UPI/David Silpa
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ROME, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Rome's Piazza Navona and the Trevi Fountain are closed to special events through the end of the year after recent vandalism to the iconic sites, the mayor said.
ROME, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Italian police stopped an opposition party leader Tuesday who was attaching to Rome's Trevi Fountain signs criticizing Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- An Italian photographer alleges in a New York lawsuit that photographer Annie Leibovitz stole two of his portraits of Italian landmarks.
ROME, July 15 (UPI) -- A man who made headlines by stealing coins from Rome's famous Trevi Fountain has been arrested three times for climbing the landmark and threatening suicide.
ROME, April 20 (UPI) -- Thousands of padlocks bearing the initials of lovers were removed Monday from the rails of a church facing Rome's Trevi Fountain, workmen said.
ROME, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A man is now facing charges of defacing a monument for making the water in Rome's historic Trevi Fountain run red, sources said Monday.
ROME, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- A vandal protesting the extravagance of Rome's film festival colored the waters of the famed Trevi fountain red with a bucket of dye.
ROME, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Two young Romanian men were arrested at Rome’s most famous fountain as they allegedly fished for coins with magnets as a crowd of tourists watched.
ROME, May 7 (UPI) -- Rome residents say the city's famed Trevi Fountain is losing its splendor as tourists crowd around it and deface it with discarded garbage.
ROME, April 13 (UPI) -- Two men who tried to scoop up coins thrown by tourists into Rome's Trevi Fountain have been charged under a law that bans bathing in public fountains.
