Image code: 19027

Mosaic in the apse of the Scala Santa

Leonian Triclinium St. Peter, Charlemagne and Leo III. The original mosaics date from around 785coirca, the year the building was built by Pope Leo III and reconstructed by Fuga according to the original design. The mosaic shows the pope in the act of paying homage to Charlemagne

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