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Sitting highly elevated on the Janiculum Hill, San Pietro in Montorio is a fiercely elegant church commanding breathtaking views of Rome, heavily famous for the tiny, flawless architectural masterpiece hiding in its adjacent courtyard.
According to a highly sustained 9th-century tradition, this specific spot on the hill was where Saint Peter was brutally crucified upside down. In 1502, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella) commissioned the brilliant architect Donato Bramante to build the massive, highly commemorative Tempietto precisely over the crucifixion site.