Via della Conciliazione

It's kind of ...

You see it from at one end of the Via della Conciliazione over in more or less in front of Castel Sant'Angelo, and you can, you can see it pretty well.

It's not tiny even at that vantage.

So by the time you're getting up really close and inside St Peter's Square, it's, it's quite, quite large.

There's a time-lapse video showing this.

People filling up the square, then bit by bit the Via della Conciliazione begins to fill up as well.

More and more people taking their seats.

The number of people reaches as far as the Tiber.