Rome: City of Domes

The Domes of Rome

14/10/2019

St Peter's Basilica

The Roman skyline is distinguished by the soaring domes of its many churches, the largest, and most famous, of which belongs to St Peter's Basilica.

The ancient Romans are credited with creating the dome as a major architectural feature in the first century BCE, but the domes we see today were mostly created in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

A church dome is made up of three elements: the drum, the cupola, and the lantern.

There are more then seventy churches in Rome that sport a dome and here are just a few of them.