Rome, Italy: Visitors now need to queue for the Trevi Fountain

Last updated on June 27, 2026

The Trevi Fountain is a world-famous attraction in Rome, Italy located in a small section of a street tucked away, surrounded by buildings. So famous in fact, that it attracts huge crowds of people in a relatively small space. Just search for an image of “trevi fountain crowds” and you’ll see the kind of crowds one can expect during peak seasons.

The new queuing system

A queuing system has been introduced in an attempt to control the crowds somewhat.

Visitors now need to queue in order to access the Trevi Fountain basin. Around 400 people will be allowed in the area at any one time, and the flow of the crowd will be controlled in a single direction with the exit on the Via dei Crociferi (western) side.

Controlled entry times are as follows:

Daily, 9am to 9pm (9 to 21 o’clock in 24 hour time) with the following exceptions:
Coins are collected from the basin twice a week, typically this is Monday and Friday. On coin collection days, the fountain is open from 12pm (lunch time) onwards to allow for coin collection.

Every other Monday, the fountain is open from 2 pm to 9 pm (14 to 21 o’clock) to allow time for emptying and cleaning the basin.

A man is fishing out coins in the Trevi Fountain basin and another man in the background sweeps the fountain. — Workers clean the Trevi Fountain. Photo copyright and credit: Author

Can you book a spot online?

Currently, there is no online booking system, so it is a first come first served basis. You can check the live webcam to see the crowd levels.

How to avoid queuing

A side view of the Trevi Fountain showing the basin with blue water and water flowing into the basin from the sculptures during the day. — The Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy. Photo copyright and credit: Author

The good news is you can still take steps to minimise crowds and queueing.

Get up really early

One of the ways to do this is making the effort to get up early enough to see the Trevi fountain outside of the queuing hours, or you go after the end of the queuing hours. People go as early as 6am, if not earlier. If you are staying nearby, you can go visit the Trevi Fountain, and be back at your hotel in time for breakfast. There is no shortage of crowds at night, even after 9pm, which, for people on holidays, isn’t that late at all. After all, who goes on holidays in order to be in bed by 9pm? People tend to find it easier to stay up later than wake up earlier, and, there are other attractions only open during the day, so, that combined with the introduction of the 9am to 9pm queuing system, I expect that there will be more crowds after 9pm than the same time before queuing was introduced, so your best bet is still to go early in the morning.

Go in off-peak season

Another way is to go during low or off-peak season. The picture above was taken during the day in August, there definitely were crowds but not anywhere near as some of the shocking scenes seen in pictures taken during peak seasons.

One thing to be prepared for is, if you go very early in the morning during winter or even autumn, it will still be dark, so you won’t get blue skies and day time photos.

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