Vatican officials have announced a €700,000 restoration of St. Peter's Basilica's baldachin. The project aims to complete the first extensive work on Bernini's masterpiece in 250 years before Pope Francis' 2025 Jubilee.
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00:24 It's all big in San Pietro, the challenge is big too, and consequently we take it seriously.
00:32 The angels on the coronation are four meters, but the presence of patina, heavy patina, the accumulation of years, the dust, the particulate,
00:44 they forced us to make a conclusive reasoning on this. We cannot not intervene in an integrated and conclusive way.
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