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Saint Peter's Square ( Latin: Forum Sancti Petri, Italian: Piazza San Pietro [ˈpjattsa sam ˈpjɛːtro]) is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood ( rione) of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of ...
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With an exterior area of 21,095 square metres (227,060 sq...
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Coordinates: 41°54′8″N 12°27′25″E. Saint Peter's Square. St. Peter's Square ( Italian: Piazza San Pietro [ˈpjattsa sam ˈpjɛːtro], Latin: Forum Sancti Petri) is a large plaza in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, Rome. The Pope frequently addresses pilgrims gathered in the square. It is named after Saint Peter .
Saint Peter's Square ( Latin: Forum Sancti Petri, Italian: Piazza San Pietro [ ˈpjattsa sam ˈpjɛːtro]) is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood ( rione) of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of ...
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Saint Peter’s Square. The heart of world Christianity, St. Peter's Square, owes its characteristic elliptical shape to the imposing colonnade by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which, commissioned by Pope Alexander VII Chigi, consists of 284 columns arranged radially in four rows. The construction took eleven years of work (1656-1667), more than 40 ...
Saint Peter’s Square was designed by the architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, at the behest of Pope Alexander VII. It was completed in 1667, after eleven years of intense and onerous work. The square is made up of an “oval space with three centres” (196 x 149 metres), with semicircular colonnades connected to the basilica by “arms” or ...
