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Beautiful background to Via dei Condotti, Piazza di Spagna is one of the most famous images in the world, and one of the most monumental and spectacular urban complexes of Rome.

Tourist attraction since the XVI century, when it attracted artists and writers.

Was already full of hotels and elegant residential buildings, the square acquired its present appearance mostly between the XVII and XVIII centuries.

With the characteristic "butterfly wings" shape, built by the two triangles with the vertex in common.

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Initially dedicated to the Trinity, the church that dominates it, was later known as the Spanish Steps in reference to the residence of the Spanish ambassador here situated.

At the center of the square is the Barcaccia fountain, 1629, by Pietro Bernini ( father of Gian Lorenzo, who helped work ).

Was built in memory of the flood of the Tiber 1598 and its form of semi-submerged boat was a ploy to conceal the technical problem of low water pressure.

At the center of the South-East triangle of the square stands the Column of the Immaculate Conception.

Was found in 1777 in the Monastery of St Mary of the Immaculate Conception in the Campo Marzio and placed here in 1856.

On the opposite side of the square, from the North-West triangle develops the long, straight director of Via del Babuino.

The name of the statue at the side of the Church of St Anastasius, drawn between 1525 and 1543, and has always considered the antique street.

Parallel along Via Margutta, one of the most characteristic streets of Rome, still but especially during the 60's, center of shops and studios of famous artists.