IMG_0504 - Scala Regia, down to St Peter's Square, for dignitaries.
IMG_0505 - The Sistine Chapel, on the right.
IMG_0506 - St Peter's Basilica.
IMG_0507 - St Peter's Basilica "Holy Door".
IMG_0512 - Michelangelo's Pietà, created in 1499. Here since ~1700.
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IMG_0518 - The canopy, made by Bernini from the bronze ceiling of the Pantheon, is over St Peter's tomb.
IMG_0519 - Inside the famous dome of St Peter's Basilica, above the canopy and St Peter's tomb.
IMG_0520 - Mosaic copy of Raphael's "Transfiguration". It took six artists nine years, finishing in 1767.
IMG_0521 - Pope John XXIII's remains on view in St Peter's Basilica.