Distance from the hotel: 2 km (1,24 miles)

On foot
-     Approximately 20 minutes

Public Transport
-      Metro line A
-     Approximately. 10 minutes

Taxi
-      Approximate. cost Euro 8
-      Approximately 10 minutes

In the square there is the famous Barcaccia Fountain belonging to the Baroque period made by Bernini and his son the most famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini. In the right corner of the stairs you can admire the house of the famous English poet John Kates who died in 1821 and today transformed into a museum dedicated to Percy Bysshe Shelley and its memory. I in the left corner you can admire the Babington’s tea room founden in 1893.

The sumptuous and monumental stairs composed by 135 steps planned by Alessandro Specchi and Francesco de Santis was unveiled by Pope Benedict XIII for the Jubilee of 1725. It was realized to connect the Spanish Bourbon Embassy (from which the square derives its name) to the Trinità dei Monti Church.
The Mecenate Palace Hotel is 2 km away from Piazza di Spagna.