Michelangelo's dome of St. Peter's Basilica at dusk with the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
This image shows Michelangelo's dome of St. Peter's Basilica at dusk with the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II in the foreground. St. Peter's Basilica was 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. While it is neither the mother church of the Roman Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites. Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II is a bridge in Rome constructed to designs of 1886 by the architect Ennio De Rossi. Construction was delayed, and it was not inaugurated until 1911. The bridge across the Tiber connects the historic centre of Rome (Corso Vittorio Emanuele, whose axis the bridge extends, and piazza Paoli at the bridgehead) with the rione Borgo and the Vatican City, close to the few remains of the Roman Pons Neronianus.
Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Photo credit: © Stuart Robertson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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