Churches today
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Vatican City · Vatican City
The Renaissance basilica over the traditional burial place of the apostle Peter.
Traditional identification
Active site
Roman Catholic
Roman
Renaissance
Modern
The identification of bones beneath the basilica with Peter is a traditional claim, not a settled one.
41.902, 12.454
Why it matters
Constantine's fourth-century church stood here before the sixteenth-century rebuilding.