The very first attraction you spot when you visit Dublin will likely be The Spire, a huge, stainless-steel monument reaching 121.2 m (398 ft) in height. Ian Ritchie Architects' simple and elegant monument looks like someone stuck a giant pin in the city. Although the monument seems to disappear in the sky at dusk, lights at the bottom and top of the pin are illuminated at night. The spire does not have an observation deck, but visitors can snap great pictures from O'Connell Street. A visit to The Spire represents just the start of the adventure when you use our Dublin trip planner to plot your vacation.
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Jako orientacni bod idealni - my brnaci se taky schazime u Šulina na Svobodaku, tak vime. Lze videt i z velke dalky a to i v noci. Z blizka na nem neni nic moc zajimaveho, snad jen, ze kdyz se podiva... more »
As an next point brilliant-we brnaci also schazime u šulina na svobodaku, so vime. The video can be also from the big, even at night. There's nothing too much to say from a close-up to the bottom of the spot, so it's a little bent on the willow.View original -
In Ireland we love to erect monuments to our heros or even to some villans. This monument is silent on what it represents- other than the site of Nelson's pillar which was finally removed by the Irish... more »
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