The Spanish Steps are still a place for artists, painters and poets to visit. The steps are a mix of curves, straight flights, vistas, and terraces. The steps have needed to be restored many times over the years, with the latest restoration being in The stairway itself is of steps, if you cannot manage this there is a lift, next to the Metro Station, which will take you to the top of the Spanish Steps.
During mid April-May each year the steps are decorated with pink azaleas, making for great photos. After you have spent your time at the Spanish Steps, the classic tourist option is to head west for the Trevi Fountain and perhaps after that the Pantheon. The way is sporadically signposted, but a good map is recommended. This walk is so full of interest that getting lost in the maze of narrow streets and alleys is almost a bonus.
The Spanish Steps are popular with tourists and locals during the spring and summer, where they can get very crowded. As of you are no longer allowed to sit on the Spanish Steps. Fines have been introduced to enforce this, to protect this UNESCO site, as increasingly there was damage done to the marble.
Laws have been in place for some time banning visitors from eating whilst sitting on the steps; now if seen doing so the fine is hundreds of euros. You have been warned! From here you have fine views over the city of Rome. The Gothic church with a Renaissance facade has two bell-towers. Inside, several paintings decorate the different chapels.
Among them are two works by Daniele da Volterra, a pupil of Michelangelo. In the midth century, A-listers Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck spurred on a stampede of American travelers to the site, after the steps were used as a backdrop in the hit rom-com, Roman Holiday. Of course, decades of heavy footfall took their toll on the monument. A huge restoration project in and saw the Spanish Steps scrubbed clean and returned to their former splendor. These days, they are looking as spick and span as they ever have.
Though the steps are the undisputed centerpiece of the upscale Tridente part of Rome, they are in good company, with a handful or so of fascinating attractions surrounding them. At the base lies the Fontana della Barcaccia, a fountain featuring a half-shrunk stone ship sculpted by Pietro Bernini. Pietro was the father of the leading Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose intricate works can be seen all across Rome and include the vast St.
At the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in ; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory, full of memorabilia of the English Romantic generation. This was a time when it was only possible to buy tea in pharmacy shops. It is especially beautiful in spring , when pots of blooming azaleas are laid out on the Spanish Steps. Throughout history, the Spanish Steps have been restored several times.
Today, eating and drinking on the steps is strictly forbidden in order to keep the staircase clean. Already in the Renaissance period, the square was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city and it still is to this very day.
The Steps were featured prominently in the film version of The Talented Mr. The steps are a wide irregular gathering place consisted of steps placed in a mix of curves, straight flights, vistas and terraces.
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