Photo credits

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. Thanks to their authors.

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  The curved Bernini colonnade of St Peter's Square seen from the square, with its rows of stone columns topped by statues of saints

  Jorge Royan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  St Peter's Square seen from the top of the dome: the oval of the square, the obelisk at the centre and the two arms of the colonnade

  Diliff · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The Egyptian obelisk and one of the fountains in St Peter's Square, with the Basilica facade rising behind them

  Álvaro de la Paz Franco · CC0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The Baroque facade of St Peter's Basilica with its giant columns, the attic with statues and the central balcony

  Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  Michelangelo's great dome of St Peter's Basilica rising above the rooftops of the Vatican under a blue sky

  Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  Via della Conciliazione, the wide avenue lined with lamps that leads straight to St Peter's Square and the Basilica dome

  Rabax63 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  View from Ponte Sant'Angelo along Via della Conciliazione towards St Peter's Basilica and its dome in the distance

  Dguendel · CC BY 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  Dusk over the Tiber with Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II in the foreground and the dome of St Peter's Basilica lit against the evening sky

  Jebulon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  Castel Sant'Angelo, the round fortress built as Hadrian's mausoleum, beside the Tiber near the Vatican

  Krzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The Leonine Walls of the Vatican, the old defensive brick and stone wall that encloses the Vatican hill

  Fallaner · CC BY-SA 4.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The open courtyard outside the Vatican Museums, with the pale facade of the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum

  Wknight94 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  Wide view inside St Peter's Basilica: Bernini's bronze baldachin over the papal altar, with the great dome high above

  Patrick Landy (FSU Guy) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The central nave of St Peter's Basilica with its coffered barrel vault, marble pillars and the baldachin in the distance

  Christoph Strässler · CC BY-SA 2.0 · colours and contrast edited

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  The double spiral staircase of the Vatican Museums designed by Giuseppe Momo, seen from below with its curving ironwork railing

  Wilfredor · CC0 · colours and contrast edited