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La Via della Conciliazione ratings (Movie, 2017)

La Via della Conciliazione
Rank 222,397 / 234,050
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Genres Documentary
Total votes 7
Average rating 7.0 / 10

Everyone can visualize Via della Conciliazione with St Peter's Basilica in the background. This image is Rome's most famous postcard, the backdrop against which TV news correspondents report on the Vatican, the Pope or the city. Few realize that this street has not always been there, and that in fact it should not be there. The truth is that Michelangelo, who designed and built the dome of St Peter's, and Bernini, the colonnade's architect, had envisaged a surprise effect on pilgrims emerging onto St Peter's Square from the labyrinthine streets of the adjacent neighborhood. Successive Popes had, over the centuries, toyed with the idea of building a triumphal route into the Vatican to welcome crowds of pilgrims and send the world a powerfully symbolic image of the power of the Church, but they never succeeded in realizing this ambition. Paradoxically, the situation only changed when Mussolini, an overtly anticlerical atheist at the start of his career, realized that if he wanted power ...

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