Today's photo is again from Copenhagen, and is of the Round Tower, or Rundetårn. The tower is quite pretty to look at from the outside, but I have to say its most amazing feature is inside. The inside does not house your standard set of old stair, but rather a ramp, or a corridor, made of bricks.
The corridor was built so that a horse and a carriage could haul books for the library and instrumentation for the observatory located at the top of the tower. Despite having seen a myriad of architectural feats, such as the Eiffel Tower and the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, I was more struck by this ramp than anything else. It was just something completely different.
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