The Huge Landmark

St.Peter's Basilica (in Italian: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) is a late Renaissance Church located within Vatican City. Designed by Donato Bramante,Michelangelo, Carlo Moderno, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St.Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest churches in world. It's regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites and has been described as holding a unique position in Christian world. Many people go there on pilgrimage and  the Pope, head of Catholic Church, lives at Vatican and often says mass at St.Peter's. By Catholic tradition, St.Peter's Basilica is the burial place of its namesake Saint Peter, one of the twelve apostles, and the first Pope and Bishop of Rome. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period. There has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (4th century AD) but it was replaced. The construction of present basilica began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626. Ultimately the first (old) St.Peter's Basilica was built after Constantine making Christianity the legal religion of Roman Empire and in order to show and practice Christianity. Now the basilica is not only visited by Catholics but is visited by whole world and has become a huge land mark.