Eternal muse

ome’s historic Spanish Steps are famed as a meeting place for Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the 1953 classic . They’ve been name-checked in songs by Bob Dylan and Van Morrison, in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1933 novel, and were a regular haunt of John Keats, the English Romantic poet who lived in a second-floor apartment nearby. The fabled Baroque stairway is also the original home of Rome’s most famous fine jewellery house, Bulgari — founder Sotirio Bulgari opened his first boutique at the top of the Spanish