Rome's Trevi Fountain gets temporary walkway amid cleaning at Italy's iconic spot

A suspended walkway providing tourists an up-close view of Rome's Trevi Fountain was unveiled Saturday, a temporary addition while the famous "La Dolce Vita" site undergoes a cleaning. That will give tourists "an experience not ruined by excessive crowding," said Rome's mayor, Roberto Gualtieri. No coin toss The fountain -- where Anita Ekberg frolicked in Federico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita" -- last got a thorough scrub a decade ago during an 18-month renovation Then, too, the Italian fashion house installed a plexiglass bridge above the basin allowing tourists to still admire the fountain. That pool "allows us to avoid throwing coins, which, without water, would damage the fountain," Gualtieri said, adding that anyone doing so would be fined.