Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City

You're standing in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, right in front of St. Peter's Basilica. Take a look around. Those massive colonnades on either side, four columns deep, are by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He designed the square in the seventeenth century for Pope Alexander VII. Bernini said the colonnades were the maternal arms of the Church, embracing everyone who arrives. Up on top stand 140 statues of saints.