Water has always been an integral part of Rome’s landscape and culture from its ancient aqueducts and Imperial baths to its majestic Renaissance and Baroque fountains commissioned by her ruling popes, and since the mid-19th century, her “nasoni”, or drinking fountains. Thus, thanks to her over 2,000 fountains–plus some 2,500 nasoni–today Rome, appropriately named “Queen of the Waters”, is home to more fountains than any other city in the world.

The water in her earlier “monumental” fountains was and usually still is non potabile (undrinkable), but 2025’s tourists and Jubilee pilgrims can count on the some 200 nasoni in the city center to quench their thirst. The other nasoni are located in parks, the EUR business district ((Esposizione Universale Roma), and the outlying residential neighborhoods.