Where was La Dolce Vita filmed?

Few films have shaped the romance of Rome quite like this one. More than sixty years on, it still draws travellers who want to feel the giddy, glamorous, faintly melancholy pulse of the Eternal City after dark, the version captured in shimmering black and white. For set-jetters it is less about a single scene than a mood you can chase across the city, from grand fountains to café terraces.

The locations sit right in the heart of Rome. The Trevi Fountain, the great baroque cascade of marble and rushing water, is the film's most iconic backdrop and remains one of the city's most thronged corners day and night. A short walk away, the sweeping, café-lined Via Veneto was the stage for the film's restless nightlife, the boulevard so bound up with the movie that it gave the world the word paparazzi.

To retrace it, base yourself in central Rome and visit the Trevi Fountain early, before the crowds thicken, then drift up to Via Veneto for an evening drink. Pair it with the classic Roman sights nearby, and consider linking it with other Italian screen pilgrimages, from the Spanish Steps to the wider Lazio countryside, for a full cinematic week.