Vatican restorers set to work on St Peter’s centrepiece
Vatican City Reuters The giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter’s Basilica is being gradually engulfed by scaffolding as Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece gets its first major restoration since the mid-1700s. The almost 30-metre-high canopy covers the high altar of the basilica, and was built on the spot where St Peter, the first […]
Tourists to get chance to walk in King Charles III’s coronation footsteps
London, UKReuters London’s Westminster Abbey said visitors will get the chance this summer to follow King Charles III’s coronation footsteps, getting access for the first time in living memory to an area sealed off to the public. The official emblem in English language of the coronation of Britain’s King Charles created by designer Jony Ive […]