The $1.7 million from coins thrown into Rome’s famous Trevi fountain each year will continue go to charity, after the mayor scrapped plans to spend it on the city’s crumbling infrastructure, following a show-down with the local Catholic church.
Thousands of coins fly into the fountain every day, tossed by tourists over their right shoulder as per guidebook instruction, in what they are told is a traditional wish to guarantee a return visit to the Eternal City.
