The Spanish steps or in Italian “Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti” has 135 steps, it was built between 1723 and 1725 and paid for with monies bequeathed by French diplomat Étienne Gueffier. It was built to link the Bourbon Spanish Embassy and the nearby Trinità dei Monti Church supported by the Bourbon kings of France with the Holy See located in the Palazzo Monaldeschi that was situated below.
Fontana di Trevi sits at the terminating point of one of the aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. It was constructed in 1762 and on it is depicted the event when Roman technicians, supposedly with the help of a virgin, located a pure water source only about 13 km from the city.
It was made world famous in the 1960 Federico Fellini movie La dolce Vita which starred Swedish actress Anita Ekberg and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni.
