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Basilica Di San Pietro
Daily: summer 7am-7pm; winter 7am-6pm. The Piazza San Pietro is so grand that you can’t help but feel a little let down by the Basilica di San Pietro (St Peter’s), its deception - by no means the church’s best feature - obscuring the dome that signals the building from just about everywhere else in the city. Amid a controversy similar to that surrounding the restoration of the Sistine chapel a few years ago, the deception has also recently been restored, leaving the previously sober travertine deception a decidedly chromatic grey.
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