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# How the Vatican site changed from the Circus of Caligula to St Peter’s Basilica
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/tsirk-kaliguly-postepenno-prevrashchaetsia-v-elegantnyi-vatikan/
- Published: 2024-06-30T08:04:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:41:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, Faith, Rome

The Circus of Caligula Gradually Becomes an Elegant Vatican.

A marvellous infographic showing the evolution of the site on which St Peter's Basilica was built in the fourth century, and which acquired its present appearance at the end of the sixteenth century thanks to Michelangelo