Trinitatis Kirke
Baroque parish church whose roof once held a university library reached by a horse-wide spiral ramp.
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This guide to Trinitatis Kirke in Copenhagen opens on the night of a 1728 fire that swept the city and reached the university library packed into the church's roof above the nave. It follows the blaze's toll on a room stacked with sagas and centuries of Danish records, and one professor's dash into the smoke to save what he could. You'll also hear about the round tower's horse-wide spiral ramp beside the church, and the visitors who once rode it.
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