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artful stairway in germany, the words on the stairs are describing the relationship between human beings: terror + love, prosecution + trust, despair + hope, revenge + kiss -- and so on...
Scala Coeli, la subida a las torres de la Clerecía, el edificio del antiguo Real Colegio del Espíritu Santo de la Compañía de Jesús de Salamanca.
The Scala dei Turchi is a rocky cliff on the coast of Realmonte. It has become a tourist attraction, partly due to its mention in Andrea Camilleri's series of detective stories about Commissario Montalbano.
The name translates as Turkish ladder, and indeed there is a certain resemblance to Pamukkale in Turkey. However there is a historical explanation of the name. Scala dei Turchi was the place Arab pirates (turks) anchored their boats out of the wind while they pillaged the surrounding area.
In August 2007, the municipality of Realmonte applied for the inclusion of the Scala dei Turchi in the UNESCO Heritage List.
For some years now, the entry to the rock has been strictly prohibited, which is illustrated by numerous signs and a fence. But rules don't mean much in Italy, as usual!
Voi non sapete affatto quel che vivete, vi aggirate nella vita come ubriachi e di tanto in tanto ruzzolate giù da una scala. Ma, grazie alla vostra ebbrezza, non vi ci spezzate le ossa: i vostri muscoli sono troppo flaccidi e la vostra testa troppo opaca perché voi possiate trovare le pietre di questa scala così dure come noialtri! Per noi la vita è un pericolo più grande: noi siamo di vetro – guai se ci urtiamo! E tutto è perduto se caschiamo!
Friedrich Nietzsche, La gaia scienza, 1882
You do not know at all what you live, walk about in life like a drunken and occasionally ruzzolate down from a ladder. But, thanks to your thrill, there there broken bones: your muscles are too flabby and your head too dull because you can find the stones of this scale so hard as the rest of us! For us, life is a greater danger: we are glass - if we hit trouble! And all is lost if we fall!
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882