Best of St Peter’s Basilica

September 10, 2018

Photographs from St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, April 2018.

Things to do in Rome — The Narthex – with ornate stucco and gilt and marble floor

Things to do in Rome — Every inch of the basilica is ornately decorated

Things to do in Rome — St. Peter’s Baldachin (Baldacchino di San Pietro, L’Altare di Bernini) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Things to do in Rome — Natural light streams into the basilica

Things to do in Rome — Maderno’s Nave

Things to do in Rome — Chapel of San Sebastian

Things to do in Rome — Huge fluted and cabled pilasters

Things to do in Rome — Michelangelo’s dome

Things to do in Rome — Left transept – used for daily mass

Things to do in Rome — St Andrew

Things to do in Rome — Papal Altar and Baldacchino

Things to do in Rome — Right transept – only accessible for those receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation (confession)

Things to do in Rome — Monument of Leo XI with the statues of Fortitude and Generosity

Things to do in Rome — Gorgeous ceiling

Things to do in Rome — Exquisite decor

Things to do in Rome — Engraved on the facade are the words – “Paul V Borghese, Roman, Pontiff, in the year 1612, the seventh of his pontificate [erected] in honour of the Princes of Apostles”

Things to do in Rome — St Peter’s Basilica with 13 travertine statues – Christ the Redeemer, John the Baptist and 11 Apostles

Things to do in Rome — The Colonnade Saints

Things to do in Rome — The Egyptian Obelisk

Things to do in Rome — From the left – St Theobald, St Theodore, St Jerome, St Hilarion, and St Bruno

Things to do in Rome — St Peter’s Basilica’s facade by Carlo Maderno

Things to do in Rome — St Peters Square

More on my visit to St Peter’s and additional photos here 🙂

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