Potemkin Stairs (Odesa)
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, 2 km from center (Одеса)
World / Ukraine / Odessa
stairs / steps, interesting place
The Potemkin Stairs is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa.
The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The staircase is 27 meters high, and extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length.
The stairs were so well designed that they create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible.
The top step is 12.5 meters (41 feet) wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters (70.8 feet) wide. The staircase is 27 meters high, and extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length.
The stairs were so well designed that they create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_Stairs
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 46°29'18"N 30°44'31"E
- Pryvoz Market 2.2 km
- Baraboi pond 27 km
- Akkerman Fortress 44 km
- Tighina Fortress 104 km
- Frumushika Nova - Center for ethnographic, rural green tourism and family recreation 105 km
- The Zoo 153 km
- Ciorticut Lake 168 km
- Danube Delta 190 km
- Izmail Fortress 197 km
- "Noviodunum" Fortress 221 km
- Port of Odesa 1 km
- Centre 1.1 km
- Odesa Port - Quarantine jetty / Container terminal 1.3 km
- Quarantine jetty 1.4 km
- Taras Shevchenko Central Park of Culture and Recreation 1.5 km
- Prymorskyi (Central) district 3.4 km
- Gulf of Odesa 4.1 km
- Peresyp 4.8 km
- Peresypskyi district 5.6 km
- Khadzhybeiskyi District 5.9 km
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