Church of Our Saviour
Baroque church with a black and gold external spiral spire climbed by four hundred steps.
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This guide to the Church of Our Saviour in Copenhagen opens with the black-and-gold staircase spiraling around the outside of its spire, and the centuries-old rumor that its architect, Laurids de Thurah, was so horrified by which way it wound that he threw himself off the top. It traces the story back to a Roman church that may have inspired the design, and asks why the legend still persists. Climb it if your nerves allow, and hold the railing on the exposed final stretch.
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