Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation) in Rome, Italy, with St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, in the background.

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This image shows Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation) in Rome, Italy, with St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, in the background. 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. Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation) is a street roughly 500 metres (1,600 ft) in length which connects St. Peter's Square to the Castel Sant'Angelo on the western bank of the Tiber River. The road was constructed between 1936 and 1950, and it is the primary access route to the St. Peter's Square.

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Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Junction of Piazza Pia & Via Della Conciliazione, Rome, Italy.
Photo credit: © Stuart Robertson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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