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The steps up the side of this temple were insanely steep, climbing them was something I did very very slowly.
In this photo Barb can be seen maklng a batch of concrete. She mixes aprox 15 shovels of sand gravel mix and three shovels of portland cement with water. We buy one/half yard of sand and gravel mix and three bags of portland cement each trip. This amount of material will pour a section of concrete wall approximately 4 feet by 8 feet. This much material at current prices is approx 40 dollars
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