A seating area of plush couches was arranged around the club’s themed rocky walls. The amount of Westerners inside was uncanny. We could have been in a nightclub in any modern metropolis. But we weren’t; we were in a tiny crevice of an ancient, enchanted city, whose centuries were reflected in every cobble stone.
Rome
A single coin thrown into the Trevi Fountain, with your right hand, over your left shoulder, is said to ensure a return to Rome. The tradition might have originated in ancient Rome, when an another, older fountainhead existed here, at the meeting of three roads (tre vie) and end of an aqueduct, which served Romans for more than 400 years. The water, if drunk before a journey, was thought to impart good fortune and promise a speedy return.
More modern superstitions suggest that throwing two coins ensures a marriage, three coins a divorce. And the faithful throw about €3000 into the pool below Neptune’s sculpted feet every day. It piles up steadily in the shallow water and is collected at night, funding a supermarket for hard up Romans. Continue reading Rome>>
