The Vatican, Rome, Italy - October 2014; The Vatican in Rome, Italy, is the spiritual and temporal heart of the Roman Catholic Church. Designed princi

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The Vatican, Rome, Italy - October 2014; The Vatican in Rome, Italy, is the spiritual and temporal heart of the Roman Catholic Church. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and one of the largest churches in the world. Here we see the awe-inspiring facade and rooftopof the Basilica.

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