Basilica di San Pietro (Saint Peter's Basilica)

Saint Peter's Basilica is built on the place where originally a Roman stadium, as well as another Basilica used to stand. The original buildings dated from the 4th century. Over the centuries, numerous architects have enlarged and amended the complex, including masters such as Bernini, who build the baroque baldacchino (canopy), which is made of bronze from the Pantheon. The Basilica's superb Pieta and its marvelous dome were designed by Michelangelo, while di Cambrio made the statue of St Peter himself. The Basilica holds the cloth of St Veronica, as well as a piece of what is said to be the True Cross, on which Jesus died.

Of the basilica's chapels, the Sistine Chapel, last on the right, is the most marvelous one. It is the Pope's personal chapel and contains fantastic frescoes, as well as the tombs of popes Sixtus V and Pius V.