Talk:Spanish Steps

message: Piazza di Spagna is should be Spanish Square since it is a square, but probably for political or other reasons the name was change in English and other languages. Maybe a separate article has to be made to the steps that are part of the square. --Poshista (talk) 08:48, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Square 

message: I bought my wife's engagement ring in a shop in the building adjacent to the steps (looking up from the plaza, it is the building on the left).  I guess that is not something for teh article.  --Amcalabrese 20:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engagement ring 

message: They are 894, while the Spanish steps are 138. I'm not sure if they qualify as a single staircase, though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.90.52.195 (talk) 05:26, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They are both longer and wider. 89.68.155.227 (talk) 21:03, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Stairs to the [[Shipka Memorial]]

message: Would you please cite your source for your unusual assertions about the piazza di Spagna:
:Initially the piazza was divided into two parts, the French Square (because the French ambassador resided there) and the Spanish Square. The steps themselves, however, came to be called Spanish Steps after the Spanish Square (which was called Spanish because the Spanish embassy to the Holy See was – and is - located there). For a while, in the 17th century, the entire Piazza di Spagna was considered Spanish territory. Apparently foreigners unwittingly trespassing into the area could even find themselves all of a sudden to be soldiers in the Spanish army. 
Thank you. A copy of this note has been posted at User talk:Jvelez.--Wetman (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:Jvelez]]

message: This is not appropriate and is unsourced: --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  moved 

message: I removed one clear copyright violation from this article, essentially undoing this edit. I suspect that there's another one, taken from here. Can anyone please check the dates and verify? —Ynhockey (Talk) 23:35, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations 

message: I removed the claim that the steps are the widest in Europe. The claim supposedly had a source, but reading the source reveals that it is based on a quote made in 1799. I seems unlikely this would apply today anymore. (A quick search doesn't reveal the measurements of the steps.) In case someone confirms that this still applies, the removed bit is here:
:The Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe.
Based on:
:Boyer Gillies, Linda (1972) An Eighteenth-Century Roman View Panini's Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, volume 30, issue 4, date: February 1972, pages 176–184, doi=10.2307/3258528, jstor=3258528.
And in the source reveals the claim is only based on this quote:
:The hill, at the summit of which stands the monastery of the French order of Minims, is covered with a wide marble cloak that forms what is without a doubt the longest and widest staircase in all Europe. – Charled de Brosses, Lettres historiques et critiques sur l'Italie 1799)
—Gemena (talk) 08:53, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Widest in Europe? 

message: The steps are named (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti in English Stairway of Trinita dei Monti) after the church at the top Trinità dei Monti, surely this article should include this?--Rockysantos (talk) 09:47, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real name of the steps 

message: Here on Wikipedia it is said that the number of steps is 135, while other sources, as I searched, say that they are 138. There is also no reference for the number of steps. Please cite a reliable source for this and change it if it is wrong. Thanks. Taddah (talk) 14:20, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of the steps 

message: Bob Dylan’s song “Masterpiece” or “When I paint my masterpiece” contains the line,
“Oh the streets of Rome
Are covered with rubble
Ancient footprints are everywhere
You could almost think 
That you’re seeing double
On a cold dark night on the Spanish Stairs” 2601:243:1100:E8F0:A967:FDD2:5089:2DBF (talk) 04:54, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  In music