January 13, 2014,
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Did you know ?
Located in the Mediterranean, and more precisely on the tip of the south of ‘The Island of Beauty’, which gives out on to the ‘bouches de Bonifacio’ strait – separating Corsica from Sardinia.
As seen by boat and from afar, it would appear like a dark slanted line including the whole height of the cliff, and from near, as type of tube scooped out of stone.
Cut out of Bonifacio’s calcareous rock by man directly, this stairway is composed of 187 steps, and determined by a 45° slant.
According to legend, it would have been dug in just one night by King Alphonse V the Magnanime of Aragon, during the siege of Bonifacio in 1420, which would have lasted five months.
It’s also more than probable that this stairway would have been continued on a longer stretch of time by t...
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