Vatican officials unveiled plans Thursday, Jan.11, for a year-long, 700,000 euro restoration of the monumental baldacchino, or canopy, of St. Peter's Basilica, pledging to complete the first ...

FILE - The scaffolding surrounded 17th century, 95ft-tall bronze canopy by Giovan Lorenzo Bernini surmounting the papal Altar of the Confession is seen in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...

Canada Aug 13, 2019 Italian police arrest Somali ISIS supporter for threatening to blow up St. Peter’s Basilica ...

St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) is the massive open-air plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667.

Architectural sketch showing an oblique view of Bernini's fountain in St. Peter's Square, set against the facade of St. Peter's Basilica. At left, the double-tiered fountain shoots water high into the ...

A view of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Vatican officials unveiled plans Thursday, Jan. 11 for a year-long, 700,000 euro restoration of the 17th century, 95ft ...

The structure, which is positioned over the basilica’s main altar to provide a ceremonial covering for the tomb of St. Peter underneath, dates from the 1620s-1630s, when Pope Urban VIII ...