Rocky Steps
The Rocky Steps are 72 stone steps leading up to the East entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia that gained global fame after being featured in a notable scene from the 1976 film Rocky.- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: construction
- Also known as: “The Rocky Steps”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Philadelphia Museum of Art and Eakins Oval.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. Philadelphia Museum of Art is situated 330 feet northwest of Rocky Steps.
Eakins Oval
Park
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
Eakins Oval is a traffic circle in Philadelphia. It forms the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with a central array of fountains and monuments, and a network of pedestrian walkways.
Rodin Museum
Museum
The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Rodin Museum is situated 2,000 feet southeast of Rocky Steps.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairmount and Spring Garden.
Fairmount
Neighborhood
Photo: goosegoddesss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fairmount is a neighborhood within Lower North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries are north of Fairmount Avenue, west of Corinthian Avenue, south of Girard Avenue and east of The Schuylkill River.
Spring Garden
Neighborhood
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Spring Garden is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Center City on the north. Spring Garden is a neighborhood that combines diverse residential neighborhoods and significant cultural attractions.
Mantua
Neighborhood
Photo: Roesluna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mantua is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Spring Garden Street, east of 40th Street, south of Mantua Avenue, and west of 31st Street.
Rocky Steps
- Categories: stairs and tourism
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.96495° or 39° 57′ 54″ northLongitude
-75.18008° or 75° 10′ 48″ westOpen location code
87F6XR79+XXOpenStreetMap ID
way 1387913459OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1139488
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Rocky Steps” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Escales de Rocky”
- Chinese: “洛基階梯”
- Chinese: “洛奇梯級”
- Chinese: “洛奇石阶”
- Chinese: “洛奇階梯”
- Dutch: “Rocky Steps”
- French: “Rocky Steps”
- Italian: “Scalinata di Rocky”
- Japanese: “ロッキー・ステップ”
- Korean: “록키 계단”
- Korean: “록키 스텝”
- Korean: “록키 스텝스”
- Portuguese: “Degraus de Rocky”
- Russian: “Ступени Рокки”
- Spanish: “Rocky steps”
- Spanish: “Rocky Steps”
- Ukrainian: “Сходи Роккі”
- Ukrainian: “Сходинки Рокі”
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