Check out these three buildings, all of which look nearly the same, but are actually found in three different countries and were built in three different centuries. This first one on the left here is St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. It, including its legendary dome, was designed by none other than Michelangelo and was completed in 1626. Until 1990 when the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace was completed in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, this was the largest Christian church in the world, yet it still remains the absolute coolest building e
ver. It was supposedly built on top of the bones of St. Peter. Mark my words, I will not be a complete person until I have visited this church! Anyhow, back to Paris. The building on the right is the Dome church in Les Invalides. Surely you've seen this all over my blog, as it seems to just show up everywhere in the city. It houses the body of Napolean after it was dug up and brought back to Paris from the island he was exiled to for the second time. Napolean's third come back. The architect who completed the building in 1708 modeled it after St. Peter's Basilica. You'll notice the picture of the cross canopy in the next blog down, it is pretty much a spitting image of the Bernini canopy in St. Peter's Basilica, just a whole lot smaller. Finally, this last building is, believe it or not, the City Hall of San Francisco, California. Pretty cool, eh? It was built in 1915 to replace the original city hall which was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake. It looks almost exactly like the Dome church in Paris. I really doubt it was built atop
any famous dead folks, but it did temporarily house the body of President Warren G. Harding after he died of pneumonia in San Francisco in 1923. Also, Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe under its dome in 1954. Wow, that's a lot more than you ever thought you would know about international domes. I just think all that stuff is cool.
Check out these three buildings, all of which look nearly the same, but are actually found in three different countries and were built in three different centuries. This first one on the left here is St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. It, including its legendary dome, was designed by none other than Michelangelo and was completed in 1626. Until 1990 when the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace was completed in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, this was the largest Christian church in the world, yet it still remains the absolute coolest building e
ver. It was supposedly built on top of the bones of St. Peter. Mark my words, I will not be a complete person until I have visited this church! Anyhow, back to Paris. The building on the right is the Dome church in Les Invalides. Surely you've seen this all over my blog, as it seems to just show up everywhere in the city. It houses the body of Napolean after it was dug up and brought back to Paris from the island he was exiled to for the second time. Napolean's third come back. The architect who completed the building in 1708 modeled it after St. Peter's Basilica. You'll notice the picture of the cross canopy in the next blog down, it is pretty much a spitting image of the Bernini canopy in St. Peter's Basilica, just a whole lot smaller. Finally, this last building is, believe it or not, the City Hall of San Francisco, California. Pretty cool, eh? It was built in 1915 to replace the original city hall which was destroyed during the 1906 earthquake. It looks almost exactly like the Dome church in Paris. I really doubt it was built atop 
any famous dead folks, but it did temporarily house the body of President Warren G. Harding after he died of pneumonia in San Francisco in 1923. Also, Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe under its dome in 1954. Wow, that's a lot more than you ever thought you would know about international domes. I just think all that stuff is cool.
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