The Greatest Spiral Stairs in the World

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture on October 20, 2009 at 10:27 pm


There is something mysterious and intriguing about spiral staircases. Atlas Obscura looks at some of the most magnificent spiral staircases in the world, with lovely pictures and facts you might not know. For example, the staircase at the Vatican Museum, pictured here, is actually a double helix, with one staircase going up and the other coming down. Link -via Curious Expeditions


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7 comments to "The Greatest Spiral Stairs in the World"

  1. aprillins
    October 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    very nice.. I would like to try that stairs!!

  2. Marcello Seri
    October 21st, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Do you know why in the Vatican museum the stair is a double helix?

    Once, for carrying sculptures and things inside and outside there weren't elevators or similar automatic stuffs, and they used donkeys. To avoid the possibility that two donkeys looks one to the other while carrying stuffs upstairs or downstairs they built that double helix: a donkey that goes up on a spiral cannot see a donkey coming down on the other.

  3. Dave___l__I
    October 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am

    "one staircase going up and the other coming down"
    How does that work?
    Dont both of them go up and down?

  4. BamaChris
    October 21st, 2009 at 10:26 am

    I will be impressed when they make a spiral escalator.

  5. MadMolecule
    October 21st, 2009 at 11:19 am

    BamaChris: http://bit.ly/1G85Dp

  6. Christophe
    October 21st, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Spiral escalator -> I'm impressed.

  7. Cornelis
    October 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Spiral escalators (or helical): Mitsubishi is manufacturing these. But they are really expensive, so that's why you do not see them often.


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