Spanish Steps

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The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.

The monumental stairway of 135 steps (the slightly elevated drainage system is often mistaken for the first step) was built with French diplomat Étienne G Gueffier's in 1723–1725,linking the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France – located above – and the Bourbon Spanish Embassy to the Holy See – located below – in Palazzo Monaldeschi. The stairway was designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.

In film

The film Roman Holiday (1953), starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, made the Spanish Steps famous to an American audience. The apartment that was the setting for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) is halfway up on the right. Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged (1998) is also set in a house next to the Steps. The Steps were featured prominently in the film version of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), starring Matt Damon in the title role.

In music

The progressive rock group Refugee recorded the song "Credo" in 1974, which contains the lyric: "I believe in constant pauses / Like a Roman holiday / And I often stop for air / As I climb the Spanish stairs".

The Bob Dylan  song "When I Paint My Masterpiece," first recorded in 1971 by The band  and later appearing on the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol II, mentions both the "Spanish Stairs" and the Colloseum . Norwegian singer/songwriter Morten Harket , from A-ha , released a song called "Spanish Steps" on his album WildSeed  in 1995.

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Fine ,Wonderful post , subscribe me

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Thank you ,have nice day!

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beautifull, seems like every city had their own history

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Thank you SirPotato, you have been gone a long time. I was worried about your health!

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I have never seen some of those things, and thanks to you now I know for them. Thank you for sharing all those amazing things from your trips.

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Uspela sam do pola da se popnem, posle sam sela i to je bilo to. Ali pogled je odlican..

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Jako lepa retrospektiva, mada iskreno ne bih se bas rado verala po ovim stepenicama, ja bih neki lift po moguctvu da me prebaci do vrha :)

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Nije teško,ja nisam ni osetila ...verovatno od sreće što sam na španskim stepenicama i u Rimu!

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Koliko vidim niu strme sto je svakako plus, mada na takvim mestim ih ne prave suvise zahtevnim, ali opet ni to ne umanjuje kompliment koji upucujem o vasoj kondiciji.

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Jako lijepo napisano a i fotografije su jako jako dobre. Čekam novi članak.Pozz za sada

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Divno podsecanje na slavne Spanske stepenice. Najbolje je doziveti ih, a ne citati iz clanaka. Nema mnogo njih tu srecu da prosetaju njima

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I evo, opet nesto novo i zanimljivo od tebe. Odkud li ih samo vadis ne znam.

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He he polako se crpe moje zalihe.Biće valjda još nešto.

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plz subscribe me

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However, the city authorities have been trying for a long time to dissuade many tourists from bad habits and are constantly introducing new bans. Finally, they concluded a ban on sitting on all historical monuments, including the Spanish Steps and the fountain at the foot of the stairs. People can be fined up to 400 euros if they sit on monuments, walk around the city without them, bathe in wells or drag suitcases up the historic stairs. The famous Spanish Steps, which connect Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square) with the Church of the Trinita dei Monti, reopened in 2016 after an extensive renovation of € 1.5 million. The Spanish Steps consists of 138 steps. In the 18th century, the plan for them was made by the architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi. Today they are one of the most popular Roman tourist spots.

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Ove godine mislim da su zabranili da se sedi na Spanskim stepenicama. A to je kultno mesto... bas bzvz.

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Moraju zabraniti ,zbog ovog užasa koji je zadesio ceo svet a posebno Italiju.Kultno mesto ostaje kultno ...samo da se ovo završi!

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Daj Boze da se zavrsi sto pre, pa da opet odemo i sednemo na te stepenice i uzivamo u pogledu na Di Trevi. 😉

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Cesto se ovo pitanje pojavljuje u kvizovima, gde se nalaze spanske stepenice? :) Svako ko procita ovaj clanak, znace da odgovori sledeci put :)

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Hvala puno sto si nam podelila i opisala svoje putovanje u prekrasnu Spaniju.

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Draga Mini Maus ovo je Italija ,Rim a stepenice su španske!

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Veoma lijepo mjesto volio bih da jednog dana odem tu vid ima bas dosta ljudi kao da su te stepenice bog

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La Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti, realizzata tra il 1723 e il 1726 su progetto dell’architetto romano Francesco De Sanctis (1693-1740), costituisce il raccordo scenografico tra le pendici del Pincio dominate dalla chiesa della SS. Trinità e la sottostante piazza di Spagna.

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