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A granite lion-head fountain is located in the basin at the top of the steps. [3] [5] The area is lined with a mix of magnolias, eastern red cedars, oaks, and other flowering trees. To the east of the Spanish Steps, a brick and stone retaining wall with balustrade creates and defines a formal side garden for the Codman-Davis House. [3]
In the film To Rome with Love (2012), Hayley (Alison Pill) and Michelangelo Santoli (Flavio Parenti) met on the Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps were the setting of a 'Roadblock' task during The Amazing Race 24 (2014) in which contestants had to count the steps. [14] In the 2000 film “It Had To Be You”, it is the dream of the female lead, a ...
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.
It's on the dinner table in less than 30 minutes (and loaded with plant-based protein to boot). Snap peas, scallions and two types of sesame seeds offer plenty of necessary crunch to this fall dinner.
It doesn't get more festive than a dazzling display of lights and mini-Christmas trees lining the hotel's lobby. The lobby, named "Waldorf Wonderland," is, per the hotel, enveloped in 112,000 ...
The tea room was founded by two young women, one from New Zealand and one from England, who arrived in Rome in 1893. They were Isabel Cargill, daughter of William Cargill, founder of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand and Anna Maria Babington, descendant of Anthony Babington who was hanged in 1586 for conspiring against Elizabeth I.
Since I couldn't get brisket, I ordered a smoked pork spare rib and pulled lamb shoulder, the restaurant's spin on pulled pork. For sides, I chose BBQ beans, beet salad, pickles, bread, and pink ...
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.