The view of St. Peter's Square and Rome beyond from the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
This image shows the view of Rome from the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) is a Late Renaissance church located within Vatican City. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest churches in the world. The dome of St. Peter's rises to a total height of metres ( ft) from the floor of the basilica to the top of the external cross. It is the tallest dome in the world. Its internal diameter is metres ( ft), slightly smaller than two of the three other huge domes that preceded it, those of the Pantheon of Ancient Rome, metres (142 ft), and Florence Cathedral of the Early Renaissance, 44 metres (144 ft). St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) is a massive plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. At the centre of the square is a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1568. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Tuscan colonnades, four columns deep, which embrace visitors in "the maternal arms of Mother Church." A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno dating to 1613.
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Location: Dome of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Photo credit: © Stuart Robertson / Alamy / Afripics
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