Six inebriated English
tourists stripped naked at dawn Monday and dove into the
19th-century Fountain of the Naiads in Rome's Piazza della
Repubblica.
A bystander spotted the swimmers - four men and two women
aged 25-49 - and alerted police, who invited the truants to get
out of the fountain and get dressed.
The six, said by police to be drunk, were charged with
public indecency and breaking city by-laws.
The fountain was completed in 1888, and its original
sculptures were replaced in 1901 with sculptures of the Naiads,
or water nymphs, by Mario Rutelli, the great-grandfather of
ex-mayor Francesco Rutelli.
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