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ROME
Squares
Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Piazza)
Piazza di Spagna is one of the most celebrated and evocative piazzas in Rome, with the fountain of the Barcaccia, designed by Pietro Bernini in the early seventeenth century, at the center.
On the south side of the piazza is the scenic stairway of Trinità dei Monti, a monumental eighteenth-century work by de Sanctis, which leads to the baroque church of the same name. Two of the most important streets in Rome, via Condotti and via Frattina, now pedestrian islands, lead away from the piazza.
Many famous people once lived in the surrounding area, among them Wagner, Liszt, Balzac, Stendhal, Rubens, Tennyson, Byron and Keats. |
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