St. Peter’s Square

St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of in , the papal enclave in , directly west of the neighborhood of .
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  • Square
  • …lies at an elevation of 22 metres (72 feet)
  • …is also known as “Saint Peter’s Square”
  • Description: piazza in Vatican City
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Peter’s Basilica and Sistine Chapel.
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The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. is situated 170 metres west of St. Peter’s Square.
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The is a chapel in the… is situated 140 metres northwest of St. Peter’s Square.
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The Vatican Apostolic Library, more commonly known… is situated 290 metres north of St. Peter’s Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Rome and Capitoline Hill.
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is the historic medieval and renaissance center of .
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The Capitolium or , between the …
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is a district in .

St. Peter’s Square

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Latitude
41.90216° or 41° 54′ 8″ north
Longitude
12.45573° or 12° 27′ 21″ east
Open location code
8FHJWF24+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 135747106
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­square
Geo­Names ID
6269269
Wiki­data ID
Q83425

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“St. Peter’s Square” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Sheshi i Shën Pjetrit”
  • Arabic: “ساحه القديس بطرس”
  • Arabic: “مربع مستقيم”
  • Arabic: “ميدان القديس بطرس”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Պետրոսի հրապարակ”
  • Asturian: “Plaza de San Pedro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Müqəddəs Pyotr meydanı”
  • Basque: “San Petri plaza”
  • Basque: “San Petriren plaza”
  • Belarusian: “П’яцца Сан-П’етра”
  • Belarusian: “Плошча Св. Пятра”
  • Belarusian: “Плошча Святога Пятра”
  • Belarusian: “плошча сьвятога Пятра”
  • Belarusian: “пляц сьвятога Пятра”
  • Bulgarian: “Свети Петър”
  • Catalan: “Plaça de Sant Pere”
  • Central Bikol: “Plaza ni San Pedro”
  • Chinese: “圣彼得广场”
  • Chinese: “聖伯多祿廣場”
  • Chinese: “聖彼得廣場”
  • Croatian: “Trg Sv. Petra”
  • Croatian: “Trg svetog Petra”
  • Croatian: “Trg Svetog Petra”
  • Czech: “Náměstí sv. Petra”
  • Czech: “Náměstí svatého Petra”
  • Czech: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Czech: “Svatopetrské náměstí”
  • Danish: “Peterspladsen”
  • Danish: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Dutch: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Dutch: “Sint Pietersplein”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Pietersplein”
  • Dutch: “St. Pietersplein”
  • Dutch: “St.-Pietersplein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان القديس بطرس”
  • Esperanto: “Piazza di San Pietro”
  • Esperanto: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de Sankta Petro”
  • Esperanto: “Placo Sankta Petro”
  • Esperanto: “WikitransJS/Placo Sankta Petro”
  • Estonian: “Püha Peetruse väljak”
  • Finnish: “Pietarinaukio”
  • French: “Place Saint-Pierre de Rome”
  • French: “place Saint-Pierre”
  • French: “Place Saint-Pierre”
  • Galician: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Galician: “Praza de San Pedro”
  • Georgian: “წმ. პეტრეს მოედანი”
  • Georgian: “წმინდა პეტრეს მოედანი”
  • German: “Petersplatz”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία του Αγίου Πέτρου”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר סן פייטרו”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר סן-פייטרו”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר פטרוס הקדוש”
  • Hebrew: “פיאצה די סן פייטרו”
  • Hebrew: “פיאצה סן פייטרו”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Péter tér”
  • Icelandic: “Péturstorgið”
  • Indonesian: “Lapangan Santo Petrus”
  • Interlingua: “Placia de Sancte Petro”
  • Italian: “Piazza Retta”
  • Italian: “Piazza San Pietro in Vaticano”
  • Italian: “piazza San Pietro”
  • Italian: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Japanese: “サン・ピエトロ広場”
  • Korean: “산 피에트로 광장”
  • Korean: “성 베드로 광장”
  • Korean: “성 베드루 광장”
  • Latin: “Forum Sancti Petri”
  • Latvian: “Svētā Pētera laukums”
  • Lithuanian: “Šv. Petro aikštė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Péitersplaz (Roum)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Péitersplaz”
  • Luxembourgish: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Macedonian: “Плоштад „Свети Петар“”
  • Macedonian: “Плоштад Свети Петар”
  • Malay: “Dataran Santo Peter”
  • Malayalam: “സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ് സ്‌ക്വയർ”
  • Mongolian: “Гэгээн Петрийн талбай”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ساحة لقديس پيدرو”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Petersplassen”
  • Norwegian: “Petersplassen”
  • Persian: “میدان سن پیترو”
  • Polish: “Plac Św. Piotra”
  • Polish: “Plac Świętego Piotra”
  • Portuguese: “Piazza di San Pietro”
  • Portuguese: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Portuguese: “Praça de S. Pedro”
  • Portuguese: “Praça de São Pedro”
  • Portuguese: “Praça São Pedro”
  • Romanian: “Piața San Pietro”
  • Romanian: “Piața Sf. Petru din Roma”
  • Romanian: “Piața Sfântul Petru din Roma”
  • Romanian: “Piaţa Sfântul Petru”
  • Romanian: “Piața Sfântului Petru din Roma”
  • Romanian: “Piața Sfântului Petru”
  • Romanian: “Piazza di San Pietro”
  • Romanian: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Romansh: “Plazza da s. Peder”
  • Russian: “Площадь Святого Петра”
  • Russian: “Пьяцца Сан-Пьетро”
  • Serbian: “Трг Светог Петра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Trg sv. Petra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Trg svetog Petra”
  • Slovak: “Námestie svätého Petra”
  • Slovak: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Slovenian: “Trg svetega Petra, Vatikan”
  • Slovenian: “Trg svetega Petra”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de San Pedro de Roma”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de San Pedro”
  • Swedish: “Petersplatsen”
  • Swedish: “Piazza di San Pietro”
  • Tagalog: “Plaza ni San Pedro”
  • Tamil: “புனித பேதுரு சதுக்கம்”
  • Tatar: “Изге Питер мәйданы”
  • Thai: “จัตุรัสนักบุญเปโตร”
  • Turkish: “Aziz Petrus Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “piazza San Pietro”
  • Turkish: “Saint Peter Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “San Pietro Meydanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Майдан святого Петра”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа святого Петра”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа Святого Петра”
  • Urdu: “سینٹ پیٹرز اسکوائر”
  • Venetian: “Piasa San Piero”
  • Vietnamese: “Công Trường Thánh Phê-Rô”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Thánh Phêrô”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Welsh: “Piazza San Pietro”
  • Welsh: “Sgwâr Sant Pedr”
  • Western Frisian: “Sint-Pitersplein”
  • Wu Chinese: “圣伯多禄广场”

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