Showing posts with the label Staircase

Scalae Gemoniae: The Stairs of Death

Mar 5, 2020

Not too far from Tarpeian Rock , a cliff on Capitoline Hill in the center of Rome, where convicted criminals were once flung to their deaths...

The Staircase of The King of Aragon

Feb 17, 2016

The Staircase of The King of Aragon (Escalier du Roi d’Aragon, in French) is a stony staircase carved into the vertical side of a limestone ...

The Steps of Pittsburgh

Aug 21, 2015

The city of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, the United States, is located over an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, valleys and three intersecti...

The Grand Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte

Aug 16, 2013

The Staircase of Santa Maria del Monte is a 142-step monumental staircase from 1608 in the old part of the town of Caltagirone, located on t...