Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Vatican City' has mentioned 'Saint Peter' in the following places:
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Ancient tradition holds that it was in this circus that Saint Peter was crucified upside-down. | WIKI |
The Constantinian basilica was built in 326 over what was believed to be the tomb of Saint Peter, buried in that cemetery. | WIKI |
Site of the tomb of the Apostle Saint Peter, first of the uninterrupted succession of Roman Pontiffs, and therefore a main pilgrimage centre, the Vatican is directly and tangibly linked with the history of Christianity. | UNESCO |
The independent State, defined by the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929, extends its territorial sovereignty over an area of 44xc2xa0ha in the centre of Rome: Vatican City enclosed by its walls and open toward the city through Berninixe2x80x99s colonnade of Saint Peterxe2x80x99s. | UNESCO |
The Centre of Christianity since the foundation of Saint Peterxe2x80x99s Basilica by Constantine (4th century), and at a later stage the permanent seat of the Popes, the Vatican is at once the pre-eminently holy city for Catholics, an important archaeological site of the Roman world and one of the major cultural reference points of both Christians and non-Christians. | UNESCO |
Beneath the basilica of Saint Peter, reconstructed in the 16th century under the guidance of the most brilliant architects of the Renaissance, remains of the first basilica founded by Constantine still exist, as well as ruins of the circus of Caligula and Nero, and a Roman necropolis of the 1st century AD, where Saint Peterxe2x80x99s tomb is located. | UNESCO |
Criterion (i): The Vatican, a continuous artistic creation whose progress spreads over centuries, represents a unique masterpiece of the modelling of a space, integrating creations which are among the most renowned of mankind: not only the world famous icon of sacred architecture, the basilica of Saint Peter, but also the chapel of Nicholas V decorated by Fra Angelico, the Borgia apartment with frescoes by Pinturicchio, the Stanze of Raphael and his students, the Sistine Chapel, whose mural decoration, begun by Perugino, Botticelli and other painters, was completed in the 16th century with the frescoes of the ceiling and the monumental Last Judgement by Michelangelo, who left his last murals in the Pauline Chapel. | UNESCO |
Architects have visited it to study the constructions of Bramante (the Basilica of Saint Peter, the Belvedere Court), of Michelangelo (the cupola of Saint Peter), of Bernini (Saint Peter's colonnade, the Baldacchino of the Basilica). | UNESCO |
For instance, the body responsible for the preservation and maintenance of Saint Peterxe2x80x99s Basilica, the Fabbrica di S.Pietro, was founded in 1506 and is still active. | UNESCO |