A group of steps that can be found in Rome, Italy is the Spanish Steps.
It mounts a steep hill between Piazza Trinita dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna at the foot.
Known as Scalinata della Trinita dei Monti in Italian, it is the largest and longest set of steps in Europe - a truly wonderful Italian flag creation.
While Alessandro Specchi was long considered to have created the triumphant entry, the Spanish steps were proposed by Francesco de Sanctis after a contest in 1717.
Ages of intense argument about how the steep hill to the cathedral on a shoulder of the Pincio must be developed paved the way of the definitive implementation.
Drawings on file from circa 1580 reveal that Pope Gregory XIII was fascinated in creating a staircase to the newly-finished facade of the French basilica.
The picture of Gaspar van Wittel of the wooded slope in 1683, prior to the construction of the Spanish Steps, is preserved at the Galleria Nazionale in Rome.
The plan caught the eye of Cardinal Mazarin, which had been specified in the will of Gueffier and handed over to his representative in Rome, whose idea consisted of an equestrian shrine of Louis XIV, a forceful imposition that produced uproar in papal Rome.
Mazarin passed away in 1661, then the pope in 1667, and the will of Gueffier was effectively challenged by a nephew who demanded for a part, so the plan was put down inactive till Pope Clement XI Albani became interested in it.
It mounts a steep hill between Piazza Trinita dei Monti and Piazza di Spagna at the foot.
Known as Scalinata della Trinita dei Monti in Italian, it is the largest and longest set of steps in Europe - a truly wonderful Italian flag creation.
While Alessandro Specchi was long considered to have created the triumphant entry, the Spanish steps were proposed by Francesco de Sanctis after a contest in 1717.
Ages of intense argument about how the steep hill to the cathedral on a shoulder of the Pincio must be developed paved the way of the definitive implementation.
Drawings on file from circa 1580 reveal that Pope Gregory XIII was fascinated in creating a staircase to the newly-finished facade of the French basilica.
The picture of Gaspar van Wittel of the wooded slope in 1683, prior to the construction of the Spanish Steps, is preserved at the Galleria Nazionale in Rome.
The plan caught the eye of Cardinal Mazarin, which had been specified in the will of Gueffier and handed over to his representative in Rome, whose idea consisted of an equestrian shrine of Louis XIV, a forceful imposition that produced uproar in papal Rome.
Mazarin passed away in 1661, then the pope in 1667, and the will of Gueffier was effectively challenged by a nephew who demanded for a part, so the plan was put down inactive till Pope Clement XI Albani became interested in it.
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