Film · 1960
Directed by Federico Fellini
Fellini's masterpiece with Marcello Mastroianni: the worldly, night-time Rome of Via Veneto, its cafés and the Trevi Fountain, between glamour and melancholy.
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Rome, Lazio
A historic café on Via Vittorio Veneto, opened in 1948, the real heart of the Roman 'dolce vita' that inspired Fellini's film. A symbol of glamorous 1960s Rome, it closed in 2008.
La Dolce Vita
Discover moreMostly on Via Veneto, with its elegant cafés and hotels, and at the Trevi Fountain (Anita Ekberg's famous bathe).
At the historic cafés of Via Veneto, the heart of Rome's 'dolce vita' in the 1960s.