Architectural Photography - Leonardo Da Vinci’s Double Helix Staircase by dabeckster

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Architectural Photography - Leonardo Da Vinci’s Double Helix Staircase
Leonardo Da Vinci invented so many amazing things in his lifetime. One of these was the double helix staircase in the French Renaissance castle called Château de Chambord. Think about the two intertwined pieces of a strand of DNA and then think about being able to design and build that in stone as a pair of intertwining staircases in the 16th century.   Standing in the center of these winding staircase looking up almost gave me vertigo as I took the photo below. 

![F33D7CE7-CE01-4CBA-888F-9CEFF3D4B724.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWcffZV5K5fWUvQmAFZwpkhK8ADnTkFoeAzcTThP3tsAr/F33D7CE7-CE01-4CBA-888F-9CEFF3D4B724.jpeg)

![F35D464A-1F80-4C95-A553-0B8240A7E9C7.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmatF74hd8A65feWUvEdvvS9d4yNP6GJQSctoSrHGM6meV/F35D464A-1F80-4C95-A553-0B8240A7E9C7.jpeg)

Because it is two staircases intertwined around each other my wife and I were able to enter the staircases on opposite sides and go up several floors and never see each other on the way up unless we looked across the interior of the stairwell. Very strange. 

![64DC413D-D24A-4F99-84A8-8A9026921230.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPcmDAoW8er8PNCcv3JRUUEkpZMczXTWNgB7r4e8Q8veS/64DC413D-D24A-4F99-84A8-8A9026921230.jpeg)

Château de Chambord is the largest castle located in the Loire Valley, a 400+ room hunting lodge built for one of the French kings. Chambord was started in 1519, was completed in 1547, took about 1800 workers to build and King Francis I spent less than seven weeks there “hunting”. 

![BD24BE4E-2F2E-4788-BC8F-74C941FE6E76.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmbxqSSQLdNe2kCDU56ztt3TUVV92QyWGxcPzDhvFiThEb/BD24BE4E-2F2E-4788-BC8F-74C941FE6E76.jpeg)

Below is a shot of the exterior of the staircase from the upper balcony of the castle.

![9A47D4FB-FDDB-40E3-9080-D4B8D52221B0.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSYRxSYPQdvCk2kCKVQh4dLbR3drkhyq3Xr6N2T1KefrC/9A47D4FB-FDDB-40E3-9080-D4B8D52221B0.jpeg)

 The view from the balcony was spectacular, but again provided a stark reminder of why the French Revolution occurred and why so many of the ruling class lost their heads. 

![460F0B15-32C0-45A9-9207-265A31722536.jpeg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmVgc17LT7Gpb1M4Swz1FDKmEn89tmffAGDmaoruP5UJ5E/460F0B15-32C0-45A9-9207-265A31722536.jpeg)

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