When we came out of Saint Peter's Basilica through door of Good and Evil ,we had our first view of Saint Peter's Square . Remember we had first gone to the Museums and entered the Basilica from the museum side , without going through the Square.
What we saw was good. It was enormous , too Grand , too large and too massive in scale to be encompassed in one human glance.
History of the square tells us that "The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace"
Today when we see Saint Peters Square we realize the completeness with which the genius of Bernini met the QRs
( Quality requirements) of Pope's directions . I have no words to describe the grandeur, the beauty and the architectural achievements attained in creating this fantastic structure , one has to see it to believe it . I do not even have photos to do justice to it , One can find such photos at this page of wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peters_Square and also at google images . Photos for the remembers of our visit are given :
We were at the Museum gates at around 1300 and the last photo taken in Square was at 1430 . So In one and a half hour we had seen the Vatican Museums , Saint Peter's Basilica , Saint Peter's Square and the Vatican City and this tells its own story of our visit.
From here we go to lunch and on to Trevi Fountain.
What we saw was good. It was enormous , too Grand , too large and too massive in scale to be encompassed in one human glance.
History of the square tells us that "The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the Vatican Palace"
Today when we see Saint Peters Square we realize the completeness with which the genius of Bernini met the QRs
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| Saint Peter's Basilica view fro Saint Peter's Square. |
We were at the Museum gates at around 1300 and the last photo taken in Square was at 1430 . So In one and a half hour we had seen the Vatican Museums , Saint Peter's Basilica , Saint Peter's Square and the Vatican City and this tells its own story of our visit.
From here we go to lunch and on to Trevi Fountain.
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