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ITINERARIES PIAZZA DI SPAGNA E TRINITA' DEI MONTI 
Spanish Steps, with the perron of Trinitą dei Monti, is one of the most famous public squares of Rome.The monumental perron of 135 steps was inaugurated from Pope Benedict XIII in occasion of the Giubileo of 1725; it was realized (thanks to of the French financings of 1721-1725) in order to connect the Spanish borbonica embassy (to which the public square took it's name) to the church of the SS. Trinitą of Mounts. It was designed from Alexander Specchi and Francisco De Sanctis after generations of long and ignited discussions on how the Pincio should be urbanized and connected with the church. The final solution chosen are large stairs decorated with numerous terrace-gardens, and in spring and summer it is splendidly adorned with many flowers. The perron has been restored in 1995. In the centre of the Spanish Steps Square there is the famous Fountain called "Barcaccia" of Baroque period, carved by "Peter Bernini" and its son, more known as "Gian Lorenzo Bernini". To the right angle of the perron there is John Keats house (the English poet), where he lived and died in 1821, today transformed in a museum dedicated to its memory and of his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, full of books and memorabilia of the English Romanticism. -> back Other information on Wikipedia - The free encyclpedia |