St. Peter's Square
Saint Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of Borgo.Photo: Giannisk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Saint Peter's Basilica
Photo: Rabax63, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply Saint Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. Saint Peter's Basilica is situated 170 metres west of St. Peter's Square.
Sistine Chapel
Photo: Pimpinellus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Sistine Chapel is situated 140 metres northwest of St. Peter's Square.
Vatican Library
Photo: Melozzo da Forlì, Public domain.
The Vatican Apostolic Library, more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library. Vatican Library is situated 290 metres north of St. Peter's Square.
Localities in the Area
Trastevere
Photo: Roundtheworld, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trastevere is a district in Rome. The district's name derives from the Latin words "Trans Tiberem": beyond the Tiber river.
Capitoline Hill
Photo: ThePhotografer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
41°53′36″N 12°28′59″E / 41.89333°N 12.48306°E Gismondi's scale model of the Capitoline Hill under…
St. Peter's Square
- Type: Square
- Description: plaza in Vatican City
- Categories: boundary point and locality
- Location: Vatican, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.90216° or 41° 54' 8" northLongitude
12.45573° or 12° 27' 21" eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open Location Code
8FHJWF24+V7OpenStreetMap ID
way 135747106OpenStreetMap Feature
place=squareGeoNames ID
6269269Wikidata ID
Q83425St. Peter's Square Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Albanian: Sheshi i Shën Pjetrit
- Arabic: Piazza San Pietro
- Arabic: ساحه القديس بطرس
- 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
- 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
- English: Saint Peter's Square
- Esperanto: Piazza San Pietro
- Esperanto: Piazza di San Pietro
- Esperanto: Placo Sankta Petro
- Esperanto: Placo de Sankta Petro
- Esperanto: WikitransJS/Placo Sankta Petro
- Estonian: Püha Peetruse väljak
- Finnish: Pietarinaukio
- French: Place Saint-Pierre
- French: Place Saint-Pierre de Rome
- 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
- Italian: Piazza Retta
- Italian: Piazza San Pietro
- Italian: Piazza San Pietro in Vaticano
- 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
- Macedonian: Плоштад Свети Петар
- Malay: Dataran Santo Peter
- Malayalam: സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്സ് സ്ക്വയർ
- Moroccan Arabic: ساحة لقديس پيدرو
- Norwegian: Petersplassen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Petersplassen
- Persian: میدان سن پیترو
- Polish: Plac Św. Piotra
- Polish: Plac Świętego Piotra
- Portuguese: Piazza San Pietro
- Portuguese: Piazza di San Pietro
- Portuguese: Praça São Pedro
- Portuguese: Praça de S. Pedro
- Portuguese: Praça de São Pedro
- Romanian: Piazza San Pietro
- Romanian: Piazza di San Pietro
- Romanian: Piaţa Sfântul Petru
- Romanian: Piața San Pietro
- Romanian: Piața Sf. Petru din Roma
- Romanian: Piața Sfântul Petru din Roma
- Romanian: Piața Sfântului Petru
- Romanian: Piața Sfântului Petru din Roma
- Romansh: Plazza da s. Peder
- Russian: Площадь Святого Петра
- Russian: Пьяцца Сан-Пьетро
- Serbian: Трг Светог Петра
- Serbo-Croatian: Trg sv. Petra
- Slovak: Námestie svätého Petra
- Slovak: Piazza San Pietro
- Slovenian: Trg svetega Petra, Vatikan
- Slovenian: Trg svetega Petra
- Spanish: Plaza de San Pedro
- Spanish: Plaza de San Pedro de Roma
- Swedish: Petersplatsen
- Swedish: Piazza di San Pietro
- Tagalog: Plaza ni San Pedro
- Tamil: புனித பேதுரு சதுக்கம்
- Tatar: Изге Питер мәйданы
- Turkish: Aziz Petrus Meydanı
- Turkish: Saint Peter Meydanı
- Turkish: San Pietro Meydanı
- Turkish: piazza San Pietro
- 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
- Wu Chinese: 圣伯多禄广场
- Плоштад „Свети Петар“
- Площа святого Петра
Other Places Named St. Peter's Square
Localities in the Area
- Vatican CitySuburb
- GianicoloLocality
- BalduinaNeighbourhood
- North Rome
- MonteverdeQuarter, 2½ km south
Places in the Area
- Saint PeterMemorial
- Saint PaulMemorial
- FelicianoWork of art
- PrimoWork of art
- JulianaWork of art
Popular Destinations in Rome
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page St. Peter's Square. Photo: Giannisk, CC BY-SA 4.0.