Fontana delle Api Fontana delle Api Fontana delle Api ("Fountain of the Bees") is a fountain located in the Piazza Barberini in Rome where the Via Veneto enters the piazza. It was sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in April 1644. "Fontana delle Api" consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it. The fountain was intended to be a watering trough for horses. An inscription on the shell reads, "Urban VIII Pont. Max., having built a fountain for the public ornamentation of the City, also built this little fountain to be of service to
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