Cross the bottom end of the piazza and continue straight up Via Sistina until you come to the top of the Spanish Steps. Built in the 1720's this is one of the most famous and photographed sights of Rome and is always covered with visitors and painters from all over the world (although at the moment it has been completely fenced off). At the foot of the steps is Piazza di Spagna and the modest, yet beautiful Fontana della Barcaccia designed by Bernini's father. In the 19th century the piazza was especially popular with English visitors and you can see the house where the young poet John Keats died in 1821; it is now a museum commemorating Keats and his contemporaries: Shelley and Byron. the English also left their mark in the area's tea rooms, especially Babington's and the Caffè Greco on Via Condotti.
