Spanish Steps On 9 November 2009, a multimedia event was held on the Steps to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the event included the erection of replicas of parts of the wall. In the 2012 film "To Rome with Love", Hayley (Alison Pill) and Michelangelo Santoli (Flavio Parenti) met on the Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps are featured in a scene in the 2015 film "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." The Steps are featured in numerous scenes in Alfred Bester's 1956 novel "The Stars My Destination". The Steps are featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1933
Calle 25 de Enero of years, the city of Ponce built new homes on this street and then drew lots to see which of its firemen would be the lucky owners of these free new properties. As a result of the devastating fires that have regularly swept through the city, firefighters are a particularly revered group in Ponce. But it was the fire on 25 January 1899, known as "El Polvorín", that is perhaps the most famous. It started in a military munition depot, located just three blocks from the now also historic Parque de Bombas firehouse, yet the firefighters were told not to