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The Danteum

One enters the Danteum by climbing a set of stairs and proceeding down a long narrow passage that leads to an open

couryard (above left). Here the metaphoric journey begins as one heads into a thicket of one hundred columns - the

"dark wood" of the opening lines of the Divine Comedy. Eventually one discovers a stairway leading to a small antechamber

that opens onto a large dark hall representing Hell (above right). The floor is made up of a series of seven descending squares

in a spiral based on the golden ratio,  a geometric equation that has fascinated mathematicians and artists for millennia.