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Egyptian obelisk at the Piazza San Pietro, Rome, Italy #29784931
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Saint Peter's Square or Piazza San Pietro is a massive plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome. At the center of the square is a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1568. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later. To the fore the images of the apostles at the roof of the basilica.
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