Spanish Steps
A broad, curving flight of steps climbing from Piazza di Spagna up to the twin towers of the Trinità dei Monti church. The square at the bottom takes its name from the Spanish embassy nearby, and the steps themselves have long been Rome's favourite place to sit and watch the street.
- Where
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 41.9061, 12.4828
Get the Spanish Steps stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Spanish Steps. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Lazio volume with your photos and a note.
Near Spanish Steps
Trevi Fountain 0.6 km
The largest Baroque fountain in the world, 26 metres high and nearly 50 wide, designed by Nicola Salvi and finished in 1762. Ocean rides a shell chariot out of the palace wall above the basin, and tradition says a coin tossed over your shoulder means you will return to Rome.
Ara Pacis 0.6 km
A marble altar to the Roman peace, commissioned by the Senate in 13 BC to honour Augustus on his return from Spain and Gaul. It lay buried under four metres of river silt for centuries and was reassembled in 1938 beside the Tiber, where it now stands inside its own museum.
Piazza del Popolo 0.7 km
A large oval square just inside Rome's old northern gate, with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre. Its name is usually read as the People's Square, but it really comes from the poplars that gave the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in its northeast corner, its name.
Villa Borghese Gardens 0.9 km
A landscaped park on the edge of the old city, laid out around the party villa of Cardinal Scipione Borghese and remade in the late 19th century. Shaded avenues lead to museums, a small lake with a temple and the Pincio terrace, which looks out over Piazza del Popolo.
Pantheon 1.0 km
A Roman temple first built under Augustus and rebuilt by Hadrian, now a church and still in use almost two thousand years on. Its unreinforced concrete dome, open to the sky through a single round oculus, lets in a moving disc of sunlight and the occasional shower of rain.
Piazza Navona 1.1 km
A long oval square that keeps the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, built here in the 1st century AD for athletic games. Three fountains run down its length, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers at the centre, and the old running track is now lined with cafes and Baroque church fronts.
Galleria Borghese 1.2 km
The private art collection of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, still shown in the villa he had built to house it. Its rooms hold Bernini's marble sculptures, including Apollo and Daphne, alongside paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael and Titian.
Trajan's Market 1.2 km
A large brick complex built as part of Trajan's Forum and set into the cut-away flank of the Quirinal Hill. Its curving halls, arcades and upper streets give a rare sense of what a working ancient Roman building felt like, and it now houses the Museum of the Imperial Forums.
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Questions
Where is Spanish Steps?
Spanish Steps is in Rome, Lazio, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Trevi Fountain (0.6 km), Ara Pacis (0.6 km), Piazza del Popolo (0.7 km).
How do I get the Spanish Steps stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Spanish Steps and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Lazio volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Spanish Steps before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Lazio volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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