Vatican City Exterior through time

Vatican City 1925–2013 11 photos of this spot

11 photographs taken at the same spot in Vatican City, spanning 1925–2013 — 7 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

An aerial photograph over Rome in 1925, four years before the Lateran Treaty established Vatican City as a sovereign state, showing St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square at the center of the frame.

EU: Stato della Città del Vaticano Luchtfoto met centraal Basilica en Piazza di San Pietro (1925) 1925 An aerial photograph over Rome in 1925, four years before the Lateran Treaty established Vatican City as a sovereign state, showing St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square at the center of the frame.

EU: Stato della Città del Vaticano. Palazzo Apostolico View from Piazza San Pietro (1925) 1925 Photographed in 1925, this view from Piazza San Pietro looks toward the Palazzo Apostolico, the papal residence within what would become Vatican City. The image predates the 1929 Lateran Treaty that formally established Vatican City as an independent state.

EU: Stato della Città del Vaticano. Piazza di San Pietro Collonade met beelden (1925) 1925 This 1925 image captures the colonnade of St. Peter's Square, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the seventeenth century and lined with statues of saints. The photograph was taken several years before Vatican City was formally established as a sovereign state.

EU: Βατικανό, Piazza San Pietro: συντριβάνι, ο αρχαίος αιγυπτιακό οβελίσκος (μεταφ'ερθηκε στη Ρώμη από τον Καλιγούλα το 37 μ.Χ) και τμήμα του περιστυλίου της πλατείας του Αγίου Πέτρου 1927 St. Peter's Square in Vatican City in 1927, showing one of its twin fountains and the ancient Egyptian obelisk that Emperor Caligula brought to Rome in 37 AD, framed by part of Bernini's colonnade.

EU: Βατικανό: τμήμα του περιστυλίου της πλατείας του Αγίου Πέτρου (Piazza San Pietro). Λήψη από το ναό. (1927) 1927 A 1927 view of part of the curving colonnade that encircles St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, photographed looking back toward the basilica.

EU: Βατικανό, η Piazza San Pietro. Στο κέντρο αρχαίος αιγυπτιακός οβελίσκος και πίσω ο ναός του Αγίου Πέτρου. (1927) 1927 St. Peter's Square photographed in 1927, with the ancient Egyptian obelisk at its center and the facade of St. Peter's Basilica rising behind it.

Vatikan Petersdom Panorama 1962 A panoramic view over St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, taken in 1962. The dome, designed principally by Michelangelo, dominates the skyline of the world's smallest sovereign state.

Vatican City, Rome, Italy 2006 A view of Vatican City within Rome, Italy, photographed in 2006. As the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, the enclave draws visitors to landmarks including St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums.

St Peters square, Vatican, Italy 2007 St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, photographed in 2007, bordered by the sweeping colonnade designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the seventeenth century. The square serves as the ceremonial approach to St. Peter's Basilica.

Vatican City Exterior 2010 This 2010 photograph shows an exterior view of Vatican City, seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the world's smallest sovereign state.

Basilica di San Pietro, Rome, Italy 2013 St. Peter's Basilica, photographed in Vatican City in 2013, is among the most significant churches in the Catholic world, completed in the early 17th century after more than a century of construction under successive Renaissance and Baroque architects.