Giardino della Pigna. Vaticano - Cortile di Pino con monumento con San Pietro e una pigna

 Holy See (Vatican City State) > Vatican City

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Vatican - the courtyard of Pinia with a monument (column with a sculpture of the Apostle Peter) and an ancient bronze cone. The column with a bronze St. Peter was made by 1870. (statue by F. Gnaccarini) and wanted to put it on the Janiculum hill. But they put it here (in 1885), the monument was dismantled in 1936 (and the statue of St. Peter moved to the Vatican Gardens on another small pedestal). ).