125 san pietro alle 07,00

If you are going to the Basilica of St. Peter's, I highly recommend going when it opens at 7 am. It is so peaceful and beautiful without swarms of people.


A floor grate in the Basilica: the popes' tombs are in the grotto below, and the Necropolis is the level below that.


The elephant was one of my favorite mosaics.


The basilica faces east; it's beautiful when the sun starts to come in around 07,30.