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The Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and the Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church, at the top.
The Spanish Steps, seen from Piazza di Spagna. In the foreground is the Fontana della Barcaccia.
The site before the construction of the stairs in a late 17th century engraving by Giovanni Battista Falda
The Piazza di Spagna in an 18th-century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, seen from south. The street on the left is Via del Babuino, leading to Piazza del Popolo.
The Piazza di Spagna viewed from the top of the Spanish Steps.
Fontana della Barcaccia
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The Fontana della Barcaccia is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna. Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as
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…damaging the steps (including eating on them or pushing a pram up or down them). In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia ("Fountain of the longboat"), built in 1627–29 and often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is recently…
Fontana della Barcaccia in Piazza di Spagna, Rome
The Barcaccia Fountain immediately after its 2014 restoration, viewed toward the adjacent Piazza Mignanelli.
Fontana della Barcaccia, seen from the top of the Spanish Steps.