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The Treasury
Along with more recent additions, the Treasury (daily: summer 9am-6pm; winter 9am-5pm; L8000) holds artefacts from the early church: a spiral column (the other survivors form part of the colonnade around the interior of the dome); a wall-mounted tabernacle by Donatello; a rich blue-and-gold dalmatic that is said once to have belonged to Charlemagne (though this has since been called into question); the vestments and tiara for the bronze statue of St Peter in the nave of the basilica; and the massive, though evenhandedly ghastly, late-fifteenth-century bronze tomb of Sixtus IV by Pollaiuolo - said to be a very accurate portrait.
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