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Piazza di Spagna &
Spanish Steps
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PIAZZA
( Spagna) A magnet for visitors since the 18th century, the Piazza di Spagna and the
Spanish Steps (Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) provide perfect people-watching perches
and you'll almost certainly find yourself taking stock here at some point.
Piazza di Spagna was named after the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, although the
staircase, designed by the Italian Francesco de Sanctis and built in 1725 with a legacy
from the French, leads to the French Chiesa della Trinità dei Monti. This landmark
church, which was commissioned by King Louis XII of France and consecrated in 1585,
commands memorable views and boasts some wonderful frescoes by Daniele da Volterra,
including a masterful Deposizione (Deposition).
At the foot of the steps, the Barcaccia (the 'sinking boat' fountain) is believed to be by
Pietro Bernini, father of the more famous Gian Lorenzo.
To the southeast of the piazza, adjacent Piazza Mignanelli is dominated by the Colonna
dell'Immacolata, built in 1857 to celebrate Pope Pius IX's declaration of the Immaculate
Conception.
Keats-Shelley House
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MUSEUM
( 06 678 42 35; www.keats-shelley-house.org ; Piazza di Spagna 26; adult/reduced €4.50/3.50;
10am-1pm & 2-6pm Mon-Fri, 11am-2pm & 3-6pm Sat; Spagna) Overlooking the Spanish Steps,
this is where the 25-year-old Romantic poet John Keats died of TB in February 1821. The
house is now a small museum crammed with memorabilia relating to the ill-fated poet and
his fellow scribes Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned off the
Tuscan coast in 1822 and is buried with Keats in Rome's non-Catholic cemetery.
Piazza del Popolo
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