Pictures on Vatican City in Rome

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Home > Pictures PIctures on Vatican City in Rome S. Peter Basilica and St. Peter's Square » Taken as a whole, the Basilica is an enormous ciborium or baldachin hovering over Peter’s memorial, with the latter at the focal point of the entire architectonic system. In fact, it is located at the crossing of the longitudinal, transversal and vertical axes of the entire edifice. Sistine Chapel » Sistine Chapel is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace. Its fame rests on its architecture, evocative of Solomon's Temple of the Old Testament and on its decoration which has been frescoed throughout by the greatest Renaissance artists including Michelangelo, Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli.