ROME

Squares

Piazza Bocca della Verità ("The Mouth of Truth")	Piazza Campo dei Fiori	Piazza del Campidoglio
Piazza del Popolo (the People's Piazza)	Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Piazza)	Piazza Navona
Piazza San Pietro (Saint Peter's Square)	Piazza Venezia

Piazza San Pietro (Saint Peter's Square)
Piazza San Pietro is Bernini's architectural masterpiece. In 1656 he encircled the elliptical area with two majestic semicircles, each formed by four files of doric columns crowned with 140 statues of saints rising towards heaven.
At the center rises an obelisk (26 meters high), which originated in Heliopolis and was brought here in 1585 by the order of Sixtus V, under the direction of Domenico Fontana. On each side there are two huge fountains from the seventeenth century, the work of Maderno and of Carlo Fontana.
In the background stands the largest Christian church in the world, Saint Peter's (see chart), dominated by the dome designed in the style of Michaelangelo.