Christmastime in Rome

Via (dei) Condotti, the most famous pedestrian shopping street in Rome, is chaos. A highly caffeinated, disorderly mob pushes and bumps along in free-form disorder; at regular intervals police cars, fire trucks, taxis, or street cleaners - inexplicably - drive right through the middle of it. Below: At the beautiful Trevi Fountain Anita Ekberg was mysteriously absent.