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Bramante Staircase is the name given to two staircases in the Vatican Museums in the Vatican City State: the original stair, built in 1505, and a modern equivalent from 1932. ~ Wikipedia
La Scala dei Turchi è una parete rocciosa (falesia) che si erge a picco sul mare lungo la costa tra Realmonte e Porto Empedocle, in provincia di Agrigento.
La Scala è costituita di marna, una roccia sedimentaria di natura calcarea e argillosa, con un caratteristico colore bianco puro. Tale scogliera dal singolare aspetto si erge in mezzo tra due spiagge di sabbia fine, e per accedervi bisogna procedere lungo il litorale e inerpicarsi in una salita somigliante a una grande scalinata naturale di pietra calcarea. Una volta raggiunta la sommità della scogliera, il paesaggio visibile abbraccia la costa agrigentina fino a Capo Rossello.
La Scala dei Turchi presenta una forma ondulata e irregolare, con linee non aspre bensì dolci e rotondeggianti. Il nome le viene dalle passate incursioni di pirateria da parte dei saraceni, genti arabe e, per convenzione, turche; i pirati turchi, infatti, trovavano riparo in questa zona meno battuta dai venti e rappresentante un più sicuro approdo.
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A 4-frame panorama shot from Ravello
Scala is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is located on a rocky hill c. 400 m above sea-level and is part of the Amalfi Coast.
According to an ancient and unproven tradition, it was founded by Roman shipwrecks travelling to Constantinople. In the Middle Ages Scala was, together with Ravello, the most important fortification of the Duchy of Amalfi. Its two castles (mentioned in a document of c. 1000 AD) were sacked by Robert Guiscard in 1073 and destroyed by the Pisane sixty years later. In 1210 the fate repeated with the troops of Otto IV and, in the late century, during the Sicilian Vespers.
The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Redemptorists, were founded in Scala by Saint Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori.
Scala is divided into six different hamlets with precise identities: from north to south, Santa Caterina, Campoleone, Campidoglio, Scala, Minuta and Pontone. Attractions include:
Santa Caterina: Porta Urbana, church of Santa Caterina, chapels of St. Paul and Santa Maria della Porta
Campoleone: church of San Pietro, in Angevine-Gothic style.
Campidoglio: church of San Giovanni Battista, with a Moresque bell tower.
The Duomo of Scala, modified in Baroque times. It has maintained the medieval crypt, the Angevine sepulchre of Marinella Rufolo, and an episcopal mitre and a Crucifix from the 13th century. Also notable is the Bishops' Palace.
Minuta: Romanesque church of Annunziata
Pontone: church of San Giovanni Battista and the remains of the basilica of Sant'Eustachio.
Hotel Zi'Ntonio: a hotel with balconies in every room overlooking the Amalfi coast and Ravello.
Scala is known for its cultivation of chestnuts. Every year, at the end of November, for two consecutive weekends, a Sagra delle Castagne (a chestnut festival) is held in the main square (Wikipedia).
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Rhätische Bahn ABe 8/12 Allegra EMU, 3509 "Placidus Spescha", descends the Bernina Pass at Scala with a Regio service, R4629 11:48 from St. Moritz to Tirano