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Ok, so you can't see the world famous dome or Cupola
di San Pietro but thats because of the fisheye lens
used to make this interactive 360 degree photo of
the most famous church in the world. The centre of
the Roman Catholic faith, St Peter's Basilica Roma
draws pilgrims from all over the world. Few are disappointed
when they enter the sumptuously decorated basilica
beneath Michelangelo's vast dome. A shrine was erected
on the site of St Peter's tomb in the 2nd century
and the first great basilica, ordered by the Emperor
Constantine, was completed around AD 349. By the 15th
century it was falling down, so in 1506 Pope Julius
II laid the first stone of a new church. It took more
than a century to build and all the great architects
of the Roman Renaissance and Baroque had a hand in
its design.
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