The Vatican: Building a Sacred Megastructure - Full Easy Documentary

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Stretching on less than 500 square meters, everything was built around a crucial location: The Tomb of Saint-Peter. A modest grave that triggered a series of grandiose constructions, starting with the first basilica built during Antiquity and almost as big as Notre-Dame de Paris.

Next, the architects were even more ambitious. The new St. Peter’s would become the largest church in the world. But its construction was a technical conundrum with its dome of 42-meters in diameter culminating at an altitude of over 110 meters, the equivalent of a 30-story building.

Behind all of the wonders found in the Vatican lie unsuspected technical challenges : to paint the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo designed his own scaffolding ; to optimize St. Peter’s Square, Bernini imagined a most original design to welcome 300,000 faithful ; out of sight, an 800-meter secret passage was designed to allow the popes to escape from the city…
Behind doors traditionally closed to the public and with the help of 3D images, discover the secrets of a megastructure with a truly unique history: The Vatican.

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00:00 Introduction
03:02 The Vatican: Building a Holy City
51:46 Credits

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