Sagre Grotte Vaticane is the name used to refer to the vast chambers beneath the floor of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. A distinction is made between the old and new crypts.
The former are primarily located beneath the nave and are 17.98 m wide and 44.99 m long. They constitute the floor of the old St. Peter's Basilica. Numerous graves of popes and emperors that were located in the Basilica of Constantine are found here, making this low and expansive space, 3.47 m high, of great historical significance. Among those of many others are the graves of the popes: Nicholas I, Gregory V, Adrian IV, Boniface VIII, Nicholas V, Paul II, Alexander VI, Emperor Otto II, and Queen Christina I of Sweden. Also resting here is the heart of Pius IX in a simple urn.
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