There’s a second fountain in LEGO’s Trevi Fountain

Two spouts off to the right

A visitor could spend a long time looking at Rome’s Trevi Fountain and miss the little rectangular basin to its right. Two spouts feed it. Rome’s tourism office recounts a custom associated with those spouts: before a young man left the city, his sweetheart would offer him water from the fountain in a new glass. After he drank, the glass was broken. The ritual gave a couple a reason to seek out a particular bit of the monument that barely figures in its famous front view.

LEGO made room for that second basin in its 2025 Architecture set, 21062. It’s an unexpected choice in a model just over 38 centimeters wide. A builder can recognize Trevi well before looking for the Lovers’ Fountain. Finding it changes what there is to see on a second pass.

A palace gives the horses their stage

The monumental fountain stands against the Palazzo Poli. In the accompanying photograph, the columns rise straight behind a tumble of stone, hooves and running water. Oceanus stands in his shell chariot between the horses. According to the city’s account, one horse is agitated and the other calm. Behind them, the statues in the side niches represent the abundance and health that water brings. Trevi marks the endpoint of the Virgo aqueduct, which gives those two figures a job beyond balancing the composition.

LEGO uses minifigures for Oceanus and the two flanking statues. There’s a reward here for anyone who usually looks at a LEGO building’s figures to work out who lives inside. At Trevi the figures belong to the architecture itself. Their positions explain where to look for the main current of the water.

Where the street begins

Down at the front edge of the model are streetlamps and bollards. They give the display a place from which an imaginary pedestrian could watch the fountain. Look straight ahead from there and the palace makes a grand, symmetrical backdrop. Let the eye wander sideways and the second basin takes the scene out of that symmetry. There’s water here for a god with a chariot and water for two people with a drinking glass. Both fit on the same shelf.