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These 17 staircases from around the world are some of the most awe-inspiring, historic, and just plain cool. Note: Many tourist attractions remain closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Be ...
The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, colloquially known as the Moraga Steps, is a stairway in the Golden Gate Heights neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Fodor's calls it "possibly the world's largest mosaic staircase", [3] and it leads up to Grandview Park.
The staircase has been declared a Grade I listed structure. [4] During the island's annual "Festival of Running", a timed run takes place up Jacob's Ladder, with people coming from around the world to take part. As of 2016, the record time to ascend the stairs is 5 minutes, 16.78 seconds. [1]
The spiral stair is a type of stairway which, due to its complex helical structure, has been introduced relatively late into architecture. Although the oldest example dates back to the 5th century BC, [ 1 ] it was only in the wake of the influential design of the Trajan's Column that this space-saving new type permanently caught hold in ancient ...
The modern 'Bramante' spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 The modern double helix staircase, also in the Pio-Clementine Museum, and commonly referred to as the "Bramante Staircase", was designed by Giuseppe Momo, sculpted by Antonio Maraini and realized by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in 1932 and was inspired by the original Bramante Staircase.
Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain is an art installation and landmark in Duisburg, Germany, built in 2011. [1] [2] It was designed by Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter.It resembles a roller coaster, but it is a walkway with stairs.
The Escalier Daru is the last in a series of increasingly monumental staircases built to serve this area of the Louvre building. In 1722, as the old Queen Mother's apartment on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie was being prepared to be the residence of Mariana Victoria of Spain the betrothed of Louis XV, [3] a staircase was built to lead directly into the Salon Carré on the upper level ...
The Calà del Sasso is a path leading down from the village of Sasso di Asiago towards the town of Valstagna, province of Vicenza, north-eastern Italy.It has 4444 steps, is 2.546 km long, and is the longest staircase in Italy [1] as well as the world's longest staircase open to the public [2] (the service stairway for Niesen Funicular is longer, but only open to the public once a year).