Piazza di Spagna
The Piazza di Spagna is a square in the centre of Rome, the capital of Italy. It lies at the foot of the Spanish Steps and owes its name to the Palazzo di Spagna, the seat of the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See.Photo: Hugo DK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Rome, Italy
- Also known as: “Piazza Di Spagna”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Spanish Steps and Fontana della Barcaccia.
Spanish Steps
Photo: Hugo DK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and the Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church, at the top.
Fontana della Barcaccia
Photo: WikiRomaWiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fontana della Barcaccia is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna. 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.
Keats–Shelley Memorial House
Museum
Photo: Keats1795, Public domain.
The Keats–Shelley Memorial House is a writer's house museum in Rome, Italy, commemorating the Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The museum houses one of the world's most extensive collections of memorabilia, letters, manuscripts, and paintings relating to Keats and Shelley, as well as Byron, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oscar Wilde, and others.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) and Modern Centre.
Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains)
Locality
Photo: R-bitzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Quattro Fontane is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome.
Modern Centre
Photo: Goldmund100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Modern Centre of Rome, home to the Via Veneto, Quirinale, Castro Pretorio, Repubblica, and Trevi neighbourhoods, is the city's hub of activity, especially shopping and nightlife.
Viminal Hill
Locality
The Viminal Hill is the smallest of the famous Seven Hills of Rome. A finger-shape cusp pointing toward central Rome between the Quirinal Hill to the northwest and the Esquiline Hill to the southeast, it is home to the Teatro dell'Opera and the Termini Railway Station.
Piazza di Spagna
- Category: tourist attraction
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Piazza di Spagna” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Armenian: “Իսպանիայի հրապարակ”
- Basque: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Belarusian: “Плошча Іспаніі, Рым”
- Belarusian: “Плошча Іспаніі”
- Bulgarian: “Испания”
- Bulgarian: “Площад Испания”
- Catalan: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Chinese: “西班牙广场”
- Chinese: “西班牙廣場”
- Croatian: “Španjolski trg”
- Czech: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Czech: “Španělské náměstí”
- Dutch: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيازا دى سبانيا”
- Esperanto: “Placo de Hispanio”
- Finnish: “Piazza di Spagna”
- French: “piazza di Spagna”
- French: “Piazza di Spagna”
- French: “place d’Espagne”
- Galician: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Georgian: “ესპანეთის მოედანი (რომი)”
- Georgian: “ესპანეთის მოედანი”
- German: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Greek: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Hungarian: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Italian: “piazza di Spagna”
- Italian: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Italian: “Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti”
- Japanese: “スペイン広場”
- Korean: “스페인 광장”
- Latin: “Platea Hispanica”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Norwegian: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Piazza di Spagna”
- Portuguese: “Escadarias da Praça da Espanha”
- Portuguese: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Russian: “Площадь Испании”
- Serbian: “Шпански трг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Slovak: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Slovenian: “Španski trg, Rim”
- Slovenian: “Španski trg”
- Spanish: “Plaza de España”
- Swedish: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Thai: “ปียัซซาดีสปัญญา”
- Turkish: “piazza di Spagna”
- Turkish: “Piazza di Spagna”
- Turkish: “Spagna Meydanı”
- Ukrainian: “Площа Іспанії (Рим)”
- Ukrainian: “Площа Іспанії”
- Uzbek: “Rim Ispaniya Maydoni”
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