St. Peter's Basilica - Vatican

I haven't posted any Vatican postcards here since 2022, it's really not a place I get many postcards from. Yesterday when I got home, I found a card of St. Peters Basilica, sent as an official from USA. The other cards on this post are an official from the Netherlands and cards 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. 

 

US-11759744, sent by Macel.

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. 

Servizio Fotografico de L'Osservatore Romano

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