The giant basilica that hides under the tomb of Saint Peter and dominated the Vatican for centuries

It all began on the hill of predictions, in imperial Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber River. There was this elevation of land known at the time as ‘mons Vaticanus’, where the rites of the cult of the…

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