Yes, I love the Spanish Staircase: no matter whether it is equated by many with 'Schickimicki'! This entire ensemble is a work of art made of stone - and yet a living photograph. On the right is still the single palm tree that directs the view to the 'Hotel Hassler Roma': in my time it was still called 'Hotel Hassler Villa Medici' a meeting point for international stars and still worth a visit due to the restaurant on the almost completely glazed upper floor. It is crowned by the church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, with one of the numerous obelisks in the foreground. The view from the piazza, up the Spanish Staircase, is impressive in itself: a stone-made link between heaven and earth.

This fountain was built after a stranded boat and is still today in summer evenings the meeting point of the young Romans and probably also tourists. The Piazza di Spagna is located at the foot of this magnificent staircase, with its centre: the 'Fontana delle Barcaccia' by Pietro Bernini. I love the flair of the 'Scala di Spagna' on a warm summer's day the impressive main staircase made of originally white marble with its somewhat less conspicuous side stairs. The technology became so good in the course of the ten years that the centre of this event - the staircase and the square in front of it - was well illuminated, but the natural spectacle was not influenced by floods of light. The sky above the Spanish Stairs in Rome was deep blue and often the stars really showed up there.

Between 19 the glamorous event 'Donna sotto le Stelle' took place annually at the end of the Roman Fashion Week.Ī delicacy for all TV viewers in love with fashion also the Bayerischer Rundfunk relied at that time on this quota bringer in the early evening program of a Sunday usually then the first autumn touch was already in the air.

Always in My Heart by Donna Valentino