Piazza di Spagna

In the Piazza di Spagna at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called Fontana della Barcaccia (Fountain of the ugly Boat), built in 1627-1629. In the piazza, at the corner on the right as one begins to climb the steps, is the house where English poet John Keats lived and died in 1821, and  it is now a museum dedicated to his memory. The Spanish Steps climb a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.  The monumental stairway includes 135 steps. The 1953 film Roman Holiday, with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, made the Spanish Steps famous to American audience.