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With its characteristic butterfly plan, the Spanish Steps is probably the most famous images in the world, as well as being one of the most beautiful urban monuments of Roman Baroque style. In the Renaissance period, the square was the most popular tourist attraction in Rome: it attracted artists, tourists and writers alike and was full of elegant hotels, inns and accommodations.
At the end of the seventeenth century, it was called Trinità dei Monti, after the church that dominates the square from above, but it was later given the name we know today after the Spanish Ambassador who lived there.
At the bottom of the stairs, you will find the famous Barcaccia Fountain, the work of Pietro Bernini and his son, Gian Lorenzo.
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