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St. Peter’s Basilica: Quick Facts

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Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica
Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, Rome, features a grand Renaissance facade with columns and a large central dome under a clear blue sky.
Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica: Presentation Chapel
Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica, altar of St. Gregory the Great
Marble sculpture Pieta by Michelangelo shows the Virgin Mary seated and holding the lifeless body of Jesus across her lap, displayed against a marble wall in St. Peter's Basilica.
Saint Peter's baldachin by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, a large bronze canopy with twisted columns, stands over the ornate high altar in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
St. Peter's Basilica
Facade of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Carlo Maderno, 1607.
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