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Trevi Fountain<\/strong><\/span> The Trevi Fountain scene from La dolce vita<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Via Veneto<\/strong><\/span> Colosseum<\/strong><\/span> Spanish Steps<\/strong><\/span> Anita Ekberg in Boccaccio ’70<\/em> in EUR<\/span><\/p>\n EUR<\/strong><\/span> St Peter’s<\/strong><\/span> Via Margutta<\/strong><\/span> Termini Station<\/strong><\/span> Baths of Caracalla<\/strong><\/span> Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini at Fregene<\/span><\/p>\n Fregene<\/strong><\/span> Cinecitt\u00e0<\/strong><\/span> Exploring the Rome sites most associated with the great film director Federico Fellini who was born in Rimini in 1920 and died in\u00a0the Italian capital\u00a0in 1993. Trevi FountainThe landmark most readily associated with Fellini is without doubt the Trevi Fountain, whose baroque majesty played a central role\u00a0in\u00a0La dolce vita (1960). The film’s most famous scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[11577,3508,2423,5894],"class_list":["post-44986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-fellini","tag-guide","tag-rome","tag-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The landmark most readily associated with Fellini is without doubt the Trevi Fountain, whose baroque majesty played a central role\u00a0in\u00a0La dolce vita<\/em><\/strong> (1960). The film’s most famous scene sees Swedish actress Anita Ekberg<\/strong> immersed in the waters of the fountain, seducing Marcello Mastroianni<\/strong> to wade in after her. When Mastroianni died in 1996 the city turned off the fountain’s waters, draping the monument in black; when Ekberg died in 2015 a giant banner reading “Ciao Anita” was hung over the fountain.<\/p>\n
Synonymous with the capital’s so-called dolce vita<\/em> era of the 1950s, Via Veneto was the go-to place for foreign film stars when Rome was known as “Hollywood on the Tiber”. This glamorous influx of celebrities attracted hordes of paparazzi, which Fellini dramatised in La dolce vita<\/em>. The director also used Via Veneto as the backdrop to Le notti di Cabiria<\/em><\/strong> (1957), starring Giulietta Masina<\/strong> (Fellini’s wife) as a prostitute in Rome who searches in vain for true love.<\/p>\n
Fellini was known to feed the cats of the Colosseum while filming Lo Sceicco Bianco<\/em><\/strong> (1952) starring Alberto Sordi, with the ancient amphitheatre also featuring in the backround of the motorcycle race at the start of Roma<\/em> (1972).<\/p>\n
The staircase at Trinit\u00e0 dei Monti makes a spectacular backdrop to Lo Sceicco Bianco<\/em> when newlyweds Oscar (Leopoldo Trieste) and Wanda (Brunella Bovo), admire the grandeur of a pensione in Via Sistina.<\/p>\n
Fellini had a weakness for the rationalist symmetry of fascist architecture, with the southern Rome\u00a0district of EUR\u00a0featuring in\u00a0La Dolce Vita<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Le Tentazioni del Dottor Antonio<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1962) from the anthology film\u00a0Boccaccio \u201970<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1962).<\/p>\n
La dolce vita<\/em> opens with a panoramic perspective of St Peter’s, with Marcello flying over on a helicopter carrying a statue of Jesus. Later in the film, he climbs to the top of the dome next to Ekberg. Piazza S. Pietro provides the backdrop to the ending of Lo Sceicco Bianco<\/em> which also features nearby Castel S. Angelo.<\/p>\n
Fellini lived on Via Margutta, where a plaque in his honour can be found at number 110, and he regularly went for coffee at the Canova caf\u00e9 in nearby Piazza del Popolo, which displays Fellini memorabilia today. Piazza del Popolo<\/strong> also features in La dolce vita<\/em>, where Marcello and Maddalena (Mastroianni and Anouk Aim\u00e9e) pick up a prostitute.<\/p>\n
Although the least glamorous landmark on this list, Termini Station featured in many of Fellini’s movies including Lo sceicco bianco<\/em>, I vitelloni<\/em><\/strong> (1953), Le notti di Cabiria<\/em>, Roma<\/em>, and Ginger e Fred<\/em><\/strong> (a 1986 film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Giulietta Masina).<\/p>\n
This massive third-century bath complex featured both in Le notte di Cabiria<\/em> and La dolce vita<\/em>, while another landmark further out on the Appia Antica – the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella – appeared in Roma<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Fellini owned a villa (since demolished) in this seaside town near Rome (Via Volosca 13<\/strong>), which played the setting for La dolce vita<\/em>\u2019s celebrated final scene. It also appears in Lo Sceicco Bianco<\/em>, Giulietta degli Spiriti<\/em><\/strong> (1965) and\u00a0Citt\u00e0 della donne<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(1980).<\/p>\n
The hallowed film studios of Cinecitt\u00e0, in the suburbs of Rome, was where Fellini shot most of his movies. Cinecitt\u00e0 recently opened a museum dedicated to Italian cinema which pays tribute, of course, to Fellini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"