One of the most beautiful staircases, of very ancient construction, is located right in our town. Here’s where to admire it.
When we learn that something beautiful and widely admired is found in our country, we are no longer surprised. Many things can be said about what life is like in Italy, but the beauty and incredible cultural heritage cannot be disputed. Today we talk about one of the architectural wonders that the world envies us.
One of the most beautiful staircases is located in Italy, where?
If we told you stairs what would you think of? From an architectural and important point of view, listing those found in our country would be an impossible task to say the least. However, there is one of the most beautiful staircases in the world and it is located in Italy.
Surprised? Of course not, because the beautiful peninsula boasts a large list of architectural records. What we are talking about today is the famous helical staircase of Momo and is located inside an equally legendary place. Or the Vatican Museums. Giuseppe Momo he was one of our country’s most notable architects and engineers, known for leaving his mark in the first 40 years of the 1900s. Strongly linked to the Churchhe created several works in Piedmont and Rome, here commissioned by Pope Pius XI, which allowed him to transform the Vatican City.
Before arriving in Rome, Momo created several religious buildings in different areas of Italy. For example, the mausoleum for Don Michele Rua in Turin. His most important work before the staircase was the Palazzo del Governatorato in the Vatican, thanks to which he definitively entered the Pope’s favor.
The helical staircase of the Vatican Museums
The famous helical staircase is often mistakenly associated with a work by Bramante. In reality it is a work commissioned to Momo in 1929 after the Lateran Pacts.
A true symbol of the Museums because it is the result of a brilliant intuition of the architect and which today represents the exit from the museum complex. Momo was inspired in the design by that of St. Patrick’s Well which is located in Orvieto, the work of Sangallo.
However, the Pope also wanted to express his ideas on the project, making some changes. If initially the staircase was designed with an external rampwas later built where the ancient bastions were and equipped with a well in the embankment.
However, its peculiarity is another: the double helical ramp that allows incoming and outgoing visitors to walk in both directions without ever colliding. A real fortune for a place like the Vatican Museums, which is still one of the most crowded and visited places in the capital today.
Precisely for this reason and despite the incredible works that the museum complex houses, the staircase is one of the most admired and photographed works inside. All you need to do is book a visit to the Museums, but not before admiring the incredible works kept here for many years.
