Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

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Saint Peter's Basilica
Basilica di San Pietro

Piazza San Pietro
Vatican City Vatican City

Status:	built
Construction Dates
Began	1506
Finished	1626

Building Uses

- religious

Structural Types

- church

- dome

Heights	Value	Source / Comments

Spire	436 ft


Roof	422 ft

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Description
• Architects: Bramante, G da Sangallo, Raffaello, Michelangelo.
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• The building itself is 194 meters long.

• Much of the basilica's finances were raised by Pope Leo X from the selling of documents which forgave the purchasers' sins.

• St. Peter's proved to be a great influence for Sir Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral in London.

• Italian architect Andres Zappata supposedly copied the cupola of St. Peter's Basilica when he designed the Catedral de Granada in Nicaragua.

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