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Piazza di Spagna and Via Condotti in an engraving by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Sign in Piazza di Spagna. In the middle of the square is the Fontana della Barcaccia, dating to the beginning of the Baroque period, sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church, at the top.
On 5 April 1536, on the occasion of the entry in Rome of Emperor Charles V, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger changed the gate into a real triumphal arch, decorating it with statues, columns and friezes, as well as arranging - through the demolition of former buildings - a triumphal way up to the Roman Forum.
The Palazzo di Spagna is a Baroque palace in the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. It has housed the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See since 1647, and was bought by the Spanish crown in 1654. It previously belonged to the Monaldeschi family, and so was known as Palazzo Monaldeschi .
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The Fontana della Barcaccia (Italian: [barˈkattʃa]; "Fountain of the Boat") is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect a fountain in every major piazza in Rome.
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This is a list of existing Roman sites in Spain. Altars. Roman altar of Arcos de la Frontera; Archaeological sites. Archaeological Ensemble of Acinipo;