St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
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Give your pupils a means of understanding history more vividly with the St. Peter's Basilica craft sheet. What has been created after many hours of handicraft work is filled with the corresponding history. Everything they know or think they know about St. Peter's Basilica can be checked for accuracy using the St. Peter's Basilica craft sheet.
- Difficulty level: easy - medium - challenging
- Dimensions: LxWxH, approx. 114x55x37cm
- Scale: 1:400
- Number of sheets: 33.5 colored sheets
When and how was this world-famous church built?
The foundation stone for the new building, which still exists today, was laid on April 18, 1506. The so-called "Peterspfennig" (St. Peter's penny) and the sale of "indulgences" practiced by the Catholic Church at the time were created to finance it. Remission of sins in exchange for cash. Although construction began after the foundation stone was laid, the building work dragged on very slowly until 1546, not least due to the constant changes in site manager.
From 1547, the world-famous Michelangelo, who was responsible in particular for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, was put in charge of the construction. Over the course of the many years of construction, the church covered an area of 15,160 m² and could accommodate up to 20,000 people.
When cutting out the countless elements, which are pre-printed on 33.5 pages of the St. Peter's Basilica construction sheet and which are then carefully glued together, you will only need a small part of the time that was needed for the real construction. The model on the St. Peter's Basilica construction sheet corresponds to a ratio of 1 : 400 and covers an area of 114 cm x 55 cm x 37 cm when completed. The work is certainly demanding, but the finished, largest papal basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican is a source of justifiable pride.
St. Peter's Basilica is a pilgrimage church
As a long building in the shape of a Latin cross, as depicted on the St. Peter's Basilica construction sheet, the cathedral was built as one of seven pilgrimage churches in Vatican City. This shape was chosen to allow as many worshippers as possible to see the tomb of St. Peter below. All these special features and fantastic designs are reproduced in a filigree manner on the St. Peter's Basilica cut-out sheet, including the curved colonnades on both sides.
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