La Dolce Vita ↗︎
Federico Fellini
Actor · Cultural figure
Anita Ekberg
La Dolce Vita connects Ekberg to the Trevi Fountain and the film’s night-time Rome.
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WORKS
Culture, connected.
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MOMENTS
What happened where.
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La Dolce Vita — Trevi Fountain
Trevi Fountain carries Sylvia and Marcello into one of cinema’s defining night images, but the World keeps the working monument separate from the staged fiction.
La Dolce Vita — location reference ↗︎La Dolce Vita — Via Vittorio Veneto
Via Veneto supplies the film’s social engine: cafés, photographers and arrivals repeatedly turn looking into a profession.
La Dolce Vita — location reference ↗︎La Dolce Vita — Piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo widens the route into the public promenades and thresholds of Fellini’s modern Rome.
La Dolce Vita — location reference ↗︎La Dolce Vita — Cinecittà Studios
Cinecittà is the necessary counter-image to the streets: the studio system where Fellini could rebuild reality at the scale of memory.
La Dolce Vita — location reference ↗︎La Dolce Vita — Villa Borghese
Villa Borghese closes on cultivated landscape and leisure—the composed surface beneath the film’s restless appetite.
La Dolce Vita — location reference ↗︎PLACES
The real-world trail.
5 sourced places connected to the story.
RomeTrevi Fountain ↗︎
Piazza di Trevi, 00187 Roma RM
RomeVia Vittorio Veneto ↗︎
Via Vittorio Veneto, Roma
RomeCinecittà Studios ↗︎
Via Tuscolana 1055, Roma
RomePiazza del Popolo ↗︎
Piazza del Popolo, Roma
RomeVilla Borghese ↗︎
Piazzale Scipione Borghese 5, Roma
KEEP EXPLORING
Cities and Worlds.
Rome ↗︎
Cinema, fountains, studios and midnight streets. Follow the city where antiquity and modern image-making share the frame.
La Dolce Vita ↗︎
Flash: fire the flashbulb to expose Paparazzo’s contact sheet of thirteen real places in and around Rome.
PEOPLE IN THE STORY
Creative connections.
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Anouk Aimée ↗︎
Anouk Aimée was a French actress. Born on 27 April 1932, this profile follows Anouk Aimée through existing screen stories and their real settings. The connected credits include La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963). The location trail reaches Trevi Fountain, Via Vittorio Veneto and Piazza del Popolo, with existing stories in Rome. Each stop belongs to a particular work and moment, keeping the creative credit beside the place that gives the story its geography. Explore the films and programmes below to move between performances, collaborators and settings, and use each location’s own story for the documented connection. These are work locations; a credit alone does not establish a personal visit to every mapped stop. The credit and location sources remain alongside each story for further reading.