St. Peter's Square

noun

1. a square surrounded by colonnades, forming a boundary of and an entrance to Vatican City, leading to St. Peter's: designed by Giovanni Bernini and built during the 17th century.

Example Sentences

Vatican Radio, it highlighted, reported the largest crowd in living memory in St Peter's Square "clamouring for the Pope", who made a speech that "Rome had been saved the horrors of war by both belligerents".

From BBC

The most significant project, and one that has caused the greatest traffic disruption to date, is a new Vatican-area piazza and pedestrian zone connecting Castel St. Angelo with the Via della Conciliazione boulevard that leads to St. Peter’s Square.

From Seattle Times

At the end of his general audience, Francis also showed tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square the rosary and camouflaged New Testament book that a 23-year-old Ukrainian soldier named Oleksandre had with him when he was killed in the eastern city of Avdijevka.

From Seattle Times

He then travelled around St Peter's Square in the popemobile waving to large crowds.

From BBC

Tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter's Square to hear the Pope.

From BBC