My accomodation is probably somenthing nobody else can offer You. Right located at the Spanish Steps Square nr. 32 this small apartment is the perfect spot to see the Eternal City having all You need. Situated at the last two floors of the highest and elegant building ( 15th century ) of the square completely renovated inside and outside only 4 years ago under control of the Ministero delle Belle Arti ( Fine Arts ), this apartment, once belonged to the great painter Giorgio De Chirico , is the ideal place to spend your holiday enjoying a magnificent and romantic view sourrended by the best monuments, museums, shops, bars, restaurants, cafè and clubs of Rome

HISTORY

The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Piazza di Spagna) is a set of stairs in Rome , ramping a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, with the church under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, Trinità dei Monti, above.

Spanish Steps

The Spanish Steps were designed by Francesco De Santis after generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanized. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs.During Christmas time a 19th-century crib is assembled in the first landing of the staircase. During May, half of the monument is covered by pots of azaleas. In modern times the Spanish Steps have included a small cut-flower market, a favorite place for eating lunch (now officially frowned upon and rewarded with fines.The Spanish Steps have been restored several times, most recently in 1995.

Piazza di Spagna

In the Piazza at the base is the Early Baroque fountain called the Barcaccia ("The Ugly Boat"), often credited to Pietro Bernini, father of a more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who is sometimes said to have collaborated on the decoration. According to an unlikely legend, Pope Urban VII had the fountain installed after he had been impressed by a boat brought here by a flood of the Tiber river.Also 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; it is now a museum dedicated to his memory, full of memorabilia of the English Romantic generation. On the same right side stands the 15th century former cardinal Cybo’s palace, now Ferrari di Valbona, a building altered in 1936 to designs by Mercello Piacentini, the main city planner during Fascism, with modern terraces perfectly in harmony with the surrounding baroque context.At the top the Viale ramps up the Pincio which is the Pincian Hill, omitted, like the Janiculum, from the classic Seven hills of Rome. From the top of the steps the Villa Medici can also be easily reached.

ACCOMODATION:

Unique apartment with a picture window 5 metres long links the two floors and offers one of the best views in Rome all over the Spanish Steps and Trinità dei Monti Church.It has all You need to relax Yourself enjoin the city : charm , privacy , comforts , fireplace and air-conditioning. It is  on two floors for a total of 22 sq. meters distributed as follows: living room with sofa bed.