Trevi Fountain Ticket 2026: €2 Entry, Hours, Coin Toss & How to Visit

Updated on November 1, 2026 · Ticket rules checked on Turismo Roma, the city’s official tourism site, on November 1, 2026.

Since February 2, 2026, tourists pay €2 to go down to the basin of the Trevi Fountain, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 PM (from 11:30 AM on Mondays and Fridays), with last entry at 9:00 PM. Looking at it from the square around it stays free. Residents of Rome, young children and visitors with disabilities enter free, and you can buy the ticket online or at the entrance, by card only.

Cover photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Trevi Fountain is the most famous fountain in Rome, and one of the busiest corners of the city. We are a local tour operator: our golf carts and vintage Fiat 500s stop here every day, and several of our private tours include the ticket. This guide covers the new ticket, the best time to go, the coin toss, the rules and what to look for when you get there.

Do you need a ticket for the Trevi Fountain?

Only for the basin, the area right by the water where people throw their coins. The ticket is required during visiting hours, 9:00 AM–10:00 PM (from 11:30 AM on Mondays and Fridays), including the first Sunday of the month. Rome introduced it to protect the fountain, pay for its upkeep and manage the crowds.

On some days the hours change for maintenance or public order reasons, so check the official site before you go.

How do you buy a Trevi Fountain ticket?

You have four options:

• Online, on the official site fontanaditrevi.roma.it. Sales run through Vivaticket.
• In person at Rome’s Civic Museums, the city’s Tourist Infopoints and partner outlets.
• At the entrance, by card only: cash is not accepted there.
• On a tour: our private golf cart tour of Rome and our Dolce Vita tours by vintage Fiat 500 include the ticket, so you skip this step. See all our vintage Fiat 500 tours in Rome.

When is the best time to visit the Trevi Fountain?

The square is busiest from late morning to evening, when it can be hard even to reach the front. For a calmer visit:

• Go early: be there when the basin opens, at 9:00 AM (11:30 AM on Mondays and Fridays), when there are fewer people.
• Go in the evening: the fountain is lit up and at its most beautiful, but remember that last entry to the basin is at 9:00 PM. After visiting hours you can still see the fountain for free from the square.
• Allow 15–30 minutes for photos and the coin toss, plus any queue at peak times.

The Trevi Fountain is about 10 minutes on foot from the Pantheon and from the Spanish Steps, so it fits easily into a walk through the historic center. Our Pantheon guide covers the next stop.

How do you throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain?

Tradition says that if you throw a coin into the fountain, you will come back to Rome. Stand with your back to the water and throw it with your right hand over your left shoulder. A second coin is for a new romance, and a third for a wedding. During ticket hours, you need the €2 ticket to reach the edge of the basin.

Where does the money go? Coins are collected regularly and given to Caritas Roma, the Catholic charity, which uses them to help people in need. It came to about €1.4 million in 2022 and a record of about €1.6 million in 2023.

The lovers’ fountain: on the right side of the Trevi Fountain, outside the basin, there is a small rectangular fountain with two spouts. Tradition says that couples who drink from it will stay in love and faithful forever.

What are the rules at the Trevi Fountain?

Rome’s urban police rules protect the city’s fountains:

• Do not wade or bathe in the fountain, however tempting the film scene. Police have fined people €450 for it.
• Do not sit, lie down or climb on the fountain or its edge.
• Keep an eye on your bag: in a crowd like this, pickpockets are a risk.
• Respect the queue and the staff at the entrance to the basin, especially at busy times.

What should you look for at the Trevi Fountain?

The fountain fills one side of Piazza di Trevi and leans against the facade of Palazzo Poli. It is about 26 m (86 ft) high and 49 m (161 ft) wide, the largest Baroque fountain in Rome.

• Oceanus, the god of the sea, stands in the central niche on a shell-shaped chariot. The statue is by Pietro Bracci.
• Two sea horses pull the chariot, one restless and one calm, like the moods of the sea. Two tritons hold them back.
• Abundance and Health, two allegories of the benefits of water, stand in the side niches.
• Two reliefs above them tell the story of the aqueduct: on the left, Agrippa orders it built; on the right, a young girl shows the spring to Roman soldiers.
• The rocks and plants carved in travertine make the fountain look as if it grew out of the palace.

Who built the Trevi Fountain, and how old is it?

The fountain is the end point of the Acqua Vergine, an aqueduct built by Agrippa in 19 BC. It is the only ancient Roman aqueduct that has worked without interruption to this day. The name Trevi probably comes from trivium, the meeting of three streets in the square.

• 17th century: Pope Urban VIII asks Gian Lorenzo Bernini for a grander fountain, but the project is abandoned when the pope dies. The Trevi Fountain is often credited to Bernini, but it is not his work.
• 1732: Pope Clement XII holds a competition, won by the architect Nicola Salvi. The pope’s name, CLEMENS XII, is carved in large letters at the top.
• 1762: after Salvi’s death, Giuseppe Pannini completes the fountain, about 30 years after work began.
• 1960: in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Anita Ekberg wades into the fountain and calls out “Marcello, come here!”, one of the most famous scenes in film history.
• 2014: the last major restoration, funded by the fashion house Fendi.

The fountain also appears in Roman Holiday (1953), where Audrey Hepburn has her hair cut at a barber’s nearby, and in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), which made the coin tradition famous around the world.

For the story of the Trevi Fountain, the free Nemo audio guide app has it on its free 90-minute route, which you can follow on your own or ride on our 90-minute golf cart tour.

See the Trevi Fountain with us

Several of our private tours stop at the Trevi Fountain and include the €2 ticket. You see the other sights from the outside, with short stops on foot:

• Private golf cart tour: 2, 3 or 5 hours with hotel pickup, the Trevi Fountain ticket and a gelato or coffee stop. From €350 for 1–3 people, or €115 per person for groups of 4 or more, on the 2-hour tour (November to mid-April).
• Dolce Vita Tour by vintage Fiat 500: 3 hours with a short food stop, from €590 for 1–3 people.
• La Dolce Vita Locations Tour: 3 hours by Fiat 500 along the locations of Fellini’s film, from Via Veneto to the fountain where Anita Ekberg waded in. From €590 for 1–3 people.
• Roman Holiday Tour: 4 hours on the trail of Audrey Hepburn, with a snack. From €690 for 1–3 people.

Our golf cart tours in Rome take up to 21 guests guaranteed (on the 2-hour tour the maximum depends on the start time), larger groups on request, and run in the rain with rain covers.