ST. PETER'S BASILICA

The Vatican St. Peter Basilica as the heart of Catholicism is a piece of architecture and art that renders the visitor speechless at the very first glance. When one gets closer to its impressive exterior, the idea of size and weight of this holy site is already conveyed. You can see, as soon as you have entered, one of the most large and bright spaces, in which high columns, marble-laid walls, and gold ornamentation naturally lead the eye to the papal altar and the beautiful Baldachin of Bernini, up before the great dome.

There are also beautiful chapels on the peripheries of the Basilica containing invaluable art. The Pieta by Michelangelo is the most emotive and emotionally charged artwork of this group, with its delicateness of beauty, and it is a moment of sadness and calmness that a person cannot help but feel observing the Sorrow and the Beauty. The polychrome marble floor, combined with vaults, which are decorated with glittering mosaics, is the ideal combination of magnificence and spiritual closeness. All this is testimony to centuries of piety, manufacture and workmanship.