Overview
Among the jewels of Rome, elegant and crowded with tourists with the incredible staircase of Trinità dei Monti and via Condotti that winds in front, with its concentration of elegant and expensive boutiques. Piazza di Spagna owes its name to the presence of the Spanish Embassy at the Holy See at number 57 while the opposite section of the square was called Piazza di Francia. The staircase of the Trinità dei Monti, a grand baroque setting and one of the Roman icons, was designed by architect Francesco De Sanctis between 1723 and 1726, creating a set of shelves and ramps with a sinuous shape. At the foot of the staircase, on the right is the Casina Rossa where John Keats lived the last days before he died and on the left Babington\'s, the first Roman tea room with the original furnishings of 1893. In front of the staircase is the Barcaccia fountain, built in memory of the flooding of the Tiber in 1598 by Pietro Bernini with the help of his son Gian Lorenzo. It imitates a semi-submerged boat, so slightly recessed from street level. In fact, it was a technical find designed to overcome the low pressure of the water that had to feed it. In Piazza Mignanelli, the widening adjacent to Piazza di Spagna, the Column of the Immaculate Conception raised in 1856 in memory of the dogma proclaimed by Pius X. It marks the arrival point of the pontiff\'s procession for the Immaculate on 8th December.
