Vatican, 2006
Part of Europe 2006 visit to France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Saint Peter's Square (Saint Peter's Piazza or as they say in Italian "Piazza San Pietro"), is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome.
The architect Carlo Fontana, designed the left-handiountain in Piazza San Pietro, built in 1677 as a pendant to the one on the right designed by Carlo Maderno about fifty years earlier. A curious fact concerning the obelisk is that it was used, or was believed to have been used in the Middle Ages, as a reliquary for the ashes of Caesar, and then (up to now) for a fragment of the Holy Cross.
Read MoreSaint Peter's Square (Saint Peter's Piazza or as they say in Italian "Piazza San Pietro"), is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome.
The architect Carlo Fontana, designed the left-handiountain in Piazza San Pietro, built in 1677 as a pendant to the one on the right designed by Carlo Maderno about fifty years earlier. A curious fact concerning the obelisk is that it was used, or was believed to have been used in the Middle Ages, as a reliquary for the ashes of Caesar, and then (up to now) for a fragment of the Holy Cross.
