Editing Spanish Steps

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{{quote|The Spanish Steps and the piazza (plaza) it encompasses were actually built with French, not Spanish, money. The steps and the plaza take their misleading names from the Spanish Embassy to the Vatican. Wide and comfortably curved, these twin staircases are famous for their popularity with sunbathers, skateboards and tourists. The famous poet, Keats, once lived nearby.|'''Pamphlet'''|Mario is Missing! (PC)}}
The '''{{wp|Spanish Steps}}''' (Italian: '''''Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti''''') are a set of stairs in [[Rome]] near the {{wp|Trinità dei Monti}} church and the {{wp|Spain|Spanish}} Embassy to the {{wp|Holy See}} (and not {{wp|Vatican City}} as the pamphlet in ''[[Mario is Missing! (PC)|Mario is Missing!]]'' says) that lends its name to the landmark.

==History==
===''Mario is Missing!''===
The Spanish Steps appear as one of two landmarks in Rome, alongside the [[Pantheon]], that are exclusive to the PC version of ''[[Mario is Missing! (PC)|Mario is Missing!]]'' It is also one of the five locations within Rome that get attacked by [[Koopa Troopa]]s; they take one of the two [[Bannister from the Spanish Steps|bannister]]s, causing the entire stairs to be closed. Luigi allows the steps to be reopened by grabbing back the bannister and returning it to its rightful place, although the clerk at the information booth verifies the Bannister's authenticity first by asking Luigi some questions. These include:

*''Watch your step, Luigi!  How many stairs make up the Spanish Steps?''
**None, it's an escalator
**'''328'''
**3280
**238

*''From what did the Spanish Steps take their misleading name?''
**Cocker spaniels
**The Spanish Civil War
**'''The Spanish Embassy'''

Although the pamphlet says that the staircase was paid with French money, this is incorrect. The money was left by French diplomat Étienne Gueffier in his will, but it was in {{wp|Italian scudo|scudi}}, a deprecated Italian coin.<ref>Elling, Christian. ''Rome: The Biography of Her Architecture from Bernini to Thorvaldsen'', illustrated ed., Westview Press, 1975, p. 328. ''Google Books'', books.google.ca/books?id=rOxPAAAAMAAJ.</ref>

===''Mario Kart'' series===
The Spanish Steps appear as one of the landmarks in the [[Tour Rome Avanti|Rome Avanti 2]] course in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'', in which a portion of the track has players drive through the steps. Rome Avanti also appears in the {{a|BCP|l}}, once again featuring the Spanish Steps.

==Media==
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==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Ger=Die Spanische Treppe
|GerM=The Spanish Stairs
|GerC=<ref>{{cite|publisher=[[Software Toolworks]]|title=''Mario wir vermisst''|language=German|accessdate=September 23, 2024}}</ref>
}}

==References==
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