135 steps of 18th-century theater connecting Piazza di Spagna to Trinità dei Monti — Rome's grandest place to arrive.
Explore → Get Early AccessThe most famous staircase in the world — 135 steps of Roman social theater connecting a boat-shaped fountain to a French church, with Keats's last window looking on. Come at sunrise when the travertine is empty and golden.
Built 1723–1725 with French money to link French-held Trinità dei Monti to the Spanish embassy's square below — a diplomatic compromise in marble. The Barcaccia fountain below is by Bernini's father, fed by the low-pressure Aqua Virgo.
John Keats died at 25 in the pink house at the base — now a museum preserving his room. Sitting on the steps is now genuinely forbidden (fines apply); the 2019 rule ended three centuries of loitering tradition.
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