Piazza San Pietro (St. Peter’s) was the site
of a Roman race track... chariots made their hairpin turns around that obelisk.
For added entertainment Christians were executed here. In about 65 AD, the apostle Peter was crucified within sight of that obelisk. Peter's friends buried him in a nearby grave on the Vatican Hill and for 250 years Christians worshipped quietly on the site. We went through St. Peter’s Basilica. When Constantine legalized Christianity the first St. Peters was built. 1200 years later, the original St. Peters was replaced by this church. It's big. Six acres... over 600 feet long! It can accommodate thousands of worshippers. The ornamental cherubs dwarf a large man. Marks on the floor show where the world's next biggest churches would fit if put inside: Saint Paul's in London... 158 meters.  








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We walked back over to Santa Maria del Popolo church and square. We relized after we left we didn't see the Bernini statue. Which we later see was covered. Oh well we got to see a few other things.
"Air" on the ground at the Vatican