Perron (staircase)

The staircase is a non- covered and often very sweeping staircase outdoors, outside buildings.

A staircase can be placed before the entrance of a building. As stairways and stone steps are referred beyond that result from a higher to a lower-lying terrain point.

Stairways were preferably mounted as stone stairs in Romanesque secular buildings and scattered with arches, plinth walls and consoles.

One of the largest and most outstanding baroque stairways located in front of the Cathedral of Girona; it consists of 90 steps in three flights of stairs. The Calà del sasso in northern Italy with 4444 levels one of the largest stairways Europe. Also very well known is the Spanish Steps in Rome, leading from the Piazza di Spagna to the church Trinita dei Monti. In the open-air theater in Schwäbisch Hall, the townscape staircase is in front of the town church main venue of theater performances. In particular, are named after a novel by Heimito of Doderer was Strudlhofstiege an Art Nouveau staircase in Vienna, known.

As Weinberg stairs or vineyard Season is called stairways for the development of vineyards. They are very steep and are often between high vineyard walls. Normally it involves natural stone stairs.