One hundred steps back
These stairs go crazy and knock the ground from under his feet.
The first man-made stairs appeared about seven thousand years BC.
Since then, mankind has gone into its development significantly forward, but the image of a ladder has not ceased to haunt our minds.
Not everyone is willing to talk about his symbolism associated with the rituals of transition or ontological breakthrough, but it is especially curious to take a picture of the stairs and put her photo in the social network — a Holy cause. “Home” is selected 15 spectacular shots of staircases from around the world, made by users of Instagram.
What Association comes to mind of the average representatives of “generation x” in the form of a ladder like this? Of course, Led Zeppelin and Stairway to Heaven. This stairway is in Hawaii and is called “Stairway to heaven”.
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A small staircase of the famous Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, designed by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, leads to the papal apartments.
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The staircase of king of Aragon carved in the limestone of the Corsican rock. According to legend, all 187 steps in stone were made for just one night, during the unsuccessful siege of Bonifacio in 1420. But more likely is that the ladder knocked into the rock of the Franciscan monks long before this siege is to reach the natural springs. Among scientists there is an opinion that the first stage date back to the Neolithic age.
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Ladder looks great surrealist, leads to the Philadelphia Museum of art. Dali appeared on it in 2005, when the Museum held an exhibition of his works.
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The complex, whose name can be loosely translated as “Stages of sleep”, located in the Japanese Prefecture of Hyogo. It is part of this places is the hundreds of terraces, filled with a small cell-gardens.
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The statue of Liberty since 1984 is included in the world heritage List of UNESCO. To climb to the top of the pedestal of the statue, will have to overcome 192 steps, but if the goal is to get inside of the crown to 356 degrees.
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Fascinating staircase — one of the famous features of the Milan Cathedral. Way up to the roof of the Cathedral, where the observation deck, took five hundred steps.
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“A soldier’s ladder” in the Belgian Liege is so called because it was built specifically to get the troops could quickly move it from the barracks to the town centre. The official title of the stairs-the street in honor of Vincent de Buren, a young nobleman in the 15th century led the performance (alas, unsuccessful) of the citizens against the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold, eager to conquer Liege.
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Hundred-meter spiral staircase installed at the foot of mount Taihang in China. The building is very popular with tourists, but due to a few extreme nature of the rise, access to open people up to the age of 60 years.
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Ladder Moses Bridge in the Netherlands — the same place from which you can see the river split into two parts. Union of Dutch architects bridge the title of “Best building of 2011.”
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Book lovers are in awe of this staircase in Venice. But supporters of the smartphones, which is not to entrap the printed text, enthusiastically photographed here.
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Many tourists who initially do not feel enthusiasm for Gaudi’s changed his opinion, having been inside the Sagrada Familia and examined it in detail. There are those who admire the Cathedral as a building, but does not understand what to admire inside. Same story with the rise of the tower. All opinions have a right to exist, but if the recovery deters exclusively associated with physical effort, it is useful to know to go upstairs on the Elevator, and down this spiral staircase.
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