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Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition, have been restored several times, most recently in 1995. A new renovation commenced on October 8, 2015 and the steps reopened on September 21, 2016.
She looked at him through the spread out fingers of her open hand. He covered his face. "It's time." he said. "Yes..." - she whispered - "Yes". They got up. He took her hand and led her up the stairs, all 88 steps, to the top of the building. They stopped at the edge of the roof. It was windy. He put his arms around her and kissed her good-bye. The last good-bye. The final good-bye. The kiss was empty. It tasted of nothing. He gave her a gentle push and it was for the first time in a very long time that she felt truly free, falling through the cristal clear air of a summer night.
Production photos from the Emerson Stage production of Small Steps.
Paramount Mainstage
November 9-11, 2012
Small Steps
By Louis Sachar
Adapted from the book by Louis Sachar
Directed by Bob Colby
Photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
Artists and scientists realize that no solution is ever final, but that each new creative step points the way to the next artistic or scientific problem.
~Anthony Storr in Feet Of Clay
Want to take more Steps?
Near Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote
January 2014
Pentax MX
Pentax SMC 28mm f3.5 w/ orange filter
Kodak Tri-X 400 / Ilford ID11 (1+2, 13mins, 20ºC)
Saturday 8th October 2022.
Radley College STEPS programme is an outreach initiative which aims to give 'academic stretch' to pupils of primary schools in the Abingdon / Oxford area. It is coordinated by Radley Housemaster Harry Crump. The young visitors to Radley participate in specially tailored classes on one Saturday morning a month.
Pic by Jon Lewis 2022.
:: 102 :: Recovery is in sight. :) These steps looked particularly interesting in the rain, as the reflections distract from what the words say. Sometimes our lives get pretty distracting too - and we forget to love others. It's funny that you can actually take these literal steps.
The clubhouse - or David Willan Stand - end at Kendal Town Football Club's Parkside Road ground. Captured before a Cumbria derby in the Northern League with Division One rivals Carlisle City.
Play-off hopefuls Kendal, fourth, were held to a 1-1 draw by Carlisle, 14th. Under the terms of a naming rights agreement, the Parkside Road ground for the 2025-26 season is known also as the Westmorland Flooring Stadium.
Match statistics
Kendal Town versus Carlisle City
Northern League, Division One (Step Five, 3pm kick-off)
Admission: £8. Programme: £2 (28 pages). Attendance: 416. Kendal Town 1 Carlisle City 1 (half-time 1-0). Scoring sequence: 1-0 (Bailey Kenny, 4mins), 1-1 (Dan Kirkup, 82 mins). Referee: Dan Forbes (Carlisle)
In 1914 the Old Boathouse was situated quite near the bottom of these steps - (now The Silver Dollar) but now the new Lifeboat Station is nearer to the Back Bolts steps - (the other side of the harbour) - so maybe they should do a swap and rename the Back Bolts the Lifeboat Steps!
Higher Steps: Sept. 20-Nov. 22, 2014. Higher school students participate in hands-on electrical and computer engineering camp at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
These steps go up between two huge hospices to the Suleimaniye mosque; you can see what a slope the complex was built on. The mosque, hospices, four medreses, baths, shopping streets, and kitchens are all the work of Mimar Sinan - he created not just a mosque, but a city within the city, here.
This path is often slippery and fraught with danger but the gate is always open, never locked.
An entrance to a Churchyard.
Disclaimer: I don't know if anyone lives here; it appeared abandoned.
Now with that said, this is the front of a house in Millburn I took this morning.
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.
The monumental stairway of 135 steps (the slightly elevated drainage system is often mistaken for the first step) was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy, and the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, both located above — to the Holy See in Palazzo Monaldeschi located below.
-Wikipedia