Piazza di Spagna is famous throughout the world for its spectacular stairway of 135 steps, designed by Francesco de Sanctis and inaugurated on the occasion of the Jubilee of 1725. Spanish steps of Rome The staircase connects the sixteenth-century church of Trinità dei Monti to the Palace of Spain, home of the Spanish embassy to […]
A legendary, unique city, Italy’s capital is a town of fascinating beauty and high excitement. According to Unesco, its historic center features some of antiquity’s essential monuments and is worthy of a stroll. Rome has become a World Heritage Site in 1980, and the Vatican, officially an outside state but in fact situated within Rome’s […]
Visiting Rome isn’t pretty much museums and ancient monuments, although these do play a big part in almost any visit. Rome is probably by far the most impressive city on the planet – at least for all those with any feeling of history. What to do in Rome An enchanting host to multiple civilizations that […]