Spanish Square
You’re in Piazza di Spagna—Spanish Square—named for the Palazzo di Spagna, which housed the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See. At the foot of the Spanish Steps, the square’s Baroque centerpiece is the Fontana della Barcaccia, dating to the beginning of the Baroque period and sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini. On one corner, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House marks where the English poet John Keats lived until his death in 1821; today it keeps books and memorabilia connected to English Romanticism, including his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Across the way, Babington’s tea room has been serving since 1893—an old-world pause amid luxury shopping streets. Look toward the property of the Holy See: the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide is framed by two façades linked to Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini. …
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