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20-OCT-2003 Alan R Zeleznikar

St Peter's High Altar Baldachino

The Vatican

The baldachino is the canopy above the high altar - the altar where the Pope gives Mass. The baldachino is made from the bronze roof tiles requistioned from the Pantheon by Pope Urban VII and designed by Bernini in 1633.

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