{"id":45686,"date":"2026-04-16T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/romes-spanish-steps-bloom-with-spring-azaleas\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:00:52","slug":"romes-spanish-steps-bloom-with-spring-azaleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/romes-spanish-steps-bloom-with-spring-azaleas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome&#8217;s Spanish Steps bloom with spring azaleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Azaleas return to the Spanish Steps in time-honoured spring tradition<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Rome&#8217;s Spanish Steps landmark, the 18th-century staircase linking Piazza di Spagna with the church of Trinit\u00e0 de\u2019 Monti, is once again decorated with hundreds of azalea plants.<\/p>\n<p>The azaleas will remain in place for about a month &#8211; depending on the weather &#8211; and once the plants cease flowering they are returned to the city nurseries until next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can admire two varieties of azaleas: the white Spanish azalea and the Phoenician azalea.<\/p>\n<p>The time-honoured spring tradition dates back to the start of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>The original location for the infiorata was in Villa Aldobrandini park before the tradition became a permanent spring fixture at Piazza di Spagna in 1952.<\/p>\n<p>The plants are cultivated in Rome\u2019s nurseries at San Sisto, on the slopes of the Coelian hill, where azaleas have flourished for around a century.<\/p>\n<p>Another popular spring tradition in Rome is the city&#8217;s\u00a0municipal rose garden, or Roseto Comunale, which is open for free every day until 14 June.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Wanted in Rome, 20 April 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azaleas return to the Spanish Steps in time-honoured spring tradition. Rome&#8217;s Spanish Steps landmark, the 18th-century staircase linking Piazza di Spagna with the church of Trinit\u00e0 de\u2019 Monti, is once again decorated with hundreds of azalea plants. The azaleas will remain in place for about a month &#8211; depending on the weather &#8211; and once<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[29786,4865,3007,6245,21933,6246],"class_list":["post-45686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eventi","tag-azaleas","tag-bloom","tag-romes","tag-spanish","tag-spring","tag-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polinex.cluster021.hosting.ovh.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}