Spanish Steps include the song "Spanish Steps of Rome" as a bonus track. The song describes a "femme fatale" romance that takes place on and around the Spanish Steps. In an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" which aired on October 2, 2000, Ray, Debra, Frank, and Marie climb the Spanish Steps during a family vacation in Rome. An episode of the anime series "Gunslinger Girl", entitled "Gelato (Ice Cream)," which first aired in 2003, features the protagonist by the Spanish Steps having her "reward" of ice cream after having completed a successful raid. In 2005, American rock band Of A Revolution released
Peruvian Ribereño Spanish Coast Spanish is the standard dialect of Spanish in Peru. Between 1535 and 1739, Lima was the capital of the Spanish Empire in South America, from where Hispanic culture spread, and its speech became the "purest" since it was the home of the famous University of San Marcos of Lima. Also, it was the city that had the highest number of titles of nobility from Castile outside of Spain. Colonial people in Lima became used to living an ostentatious and courtly life style that people in the other capital cities of Spanish America did not experience, with the exception of