St. Peter's Basilica - Vatican

I haven't posted any Vatican postcards here since 2018, it's really not a place where I get many postcards from. However, these last weeks I've received 2 cards from there as officials from other countries, the 1st of these cards as an official from the Netherlands and the French official from the previous post. 

The other postcards in this post were sent by Zé in 2015 and by Ilaria in 2010.

 

NL-5180774, sent by Caroline.

St. Peter's Basilica is a Rennaisance style church in Vatican City. The basilica was built according to tradition above the burial site of St. Peter, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the first Bishop of Rome. To maintain this tradition, Popes are now buried within the basilica. 

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Regarded as one of the holiest sites in Christendom, it was built to replace the Old St. Peter's Basilica between 1506 and 1626. It was designed by the greatest Old Masters of the time, including Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

 

Today, the church serves as a symbol of Rennaissance architecture, as well as being an integral site of pilgrimage, it is a papal basilica and not a cathedral, since it is not the seat of a bishop. The Arch Basilica of St. John Lateran is actually the cathedral church of Rome. - in: https://www.st-peters-basilica-tickets.com