St. Peter's Basilica is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome. 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. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral ...
The Vatican Museums are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and c...
Nestled in the city of Rome is the Vatican, the world's smallest independent state and the headquarters of the Catholic Church. There are numerous religious and cultural sites within the Vatican City such as St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. You can also see the Pope live in person if you head to St. Peter's Square at noon on Sunday for the Angel...
Piazza San Pietro, Vatican City, Lazio 00120, Italy
St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave inside Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus considered by Catholics to be the first Pope. At the centre of the square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site i...