Who Designed The Piazza In Front Of The Vatican?

Who Designed The Piazza In Front Of The Vatican? The two colonnades are arms open to the world. The aspirations of patron Pope Alexander VII (1599-1667) and his favorite architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) led to the extraordinarily magical construction of St. Peter’s Piazza. Also known as Piazza San Pietro, the area before St. Who