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The Historian · Freja · Copenhagen

Church of Our Saviour

Christianshavn · Baroque Church · $

I climb this for the view, but I tell the story first: the builder didn't leap, the stairs don't turn the 'wrong' way — the myth outlived the man.

The corkscrew church — an external spiral staircase winds up the 90-metre spire, and legend says its architect jumped when he found he'd built it turning the wrong way.

— Freja, The Historian
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