The floods in northern Italy have been described as the worst in over a century, and to highlight climate change, climate activists in Rome demonstrated by coloring the water in the Trevi Fountain black – according to the protesters as black as the future of humanity.
The activists held up signs claiming that one in four houses in Italy are at risk of flooding, and they demand an end to subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels.
Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri was not impressed by the action in one of the capital's main tourist attractions.
"There must be an end to these absurd attacks on our cultural heritage," he wrote on Twitter.