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Looking up the Momo staircase in Vatican Museums

Exit staircase in Vatican Museums
Exit staircase in Vatican Museums

 

This spiral staircase in Vatican Museums was designed by Guiseppe Momo in 1932. As you can see, it is a piece of art itself. It’s sometimes also called Bramante staircase (wiki and viator) in a nod to an original staircase built by Donato Bramante in 1505 in Belvedere Palace, Vatican. The Momo staircase is a new modern one, also designed as a double staircase allowing people to walk two routes without crossing paths. This way some visitors can walk up and other down without meeting. At the moment, the staircase is actually the exit from the Vatican Museums and so the visitors only descend. It starts as a ramp and then more and more stairs appear to become a staircase as we know it by the bottom.

Taliansky architekt Guiseppe Momo navrhol toto špirálovité schodisko vo Vatikánskych múzeách v roku 1932. Občas sa nazýva aj Bramantovo schodisko podľa podobného kúska postaveného v roku 1505 Donatom Bramante v paláci Belvedere, taktiež vo Vatikáne. Točité schodisko má dve úrovne, ktoré sa nikdy nestretnú. A tak môžu jednou ísť návštevníci hore a druhou zase dole a nebudú si prekážať. V súčasnosti je toto schodisko umiestnené pri východe z múzeí. Začína sa ako rampa, ale postupne sa pridávajú široké schody, ktoré sa cestou dolu zužujú. A tak to na spodu vyzerá ako normálne schodisko.

Location / Miesto: Vatican Museums, Vatican
Date / Dátum: 2 April 2016

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