Palazzo Barberini Palazzo Barberini The Palazzo Barberini () is a 17th-century palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi. It houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. The sloping site had formerly been occupied by a garden-vineyard of the Sforza family, in which a "palazzetto" had been built in 1549. The sloping site passed from one cardinal to another during the sixteenth century, with no project fully getting off the ground. When Cardinal Alessandro Sforza met financial hardships, the still semi-urban site was purchased in 1625 by Maffeo Barberini, of the Barberini family, who became Pope Urban VIII. Three great architects
Three Coins in the Fountain (song) 1990, and used in the film "Coins in the Fountain" that same year. Steve Martin sings "Three Coins in a Fountain" when attempting a sing-along in the film, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles". It was parodied in "The Goon Show", to the same tune, with the words "Three Goons in a fountain, which one will the fountain drown?" On October 8, 1966, Steve Smith sang "Three Coins in the Fountain" in a musical tour of Italy on ABC's "The Lawrence Welk Show". Three Coins in the Fountain (song) "Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular song which received the Academy