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religious tourism - vatican tours - Papal audience - Vatican Gardens - |
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| Vatican City spreads out to the right of the Tiber and lies between Monte Mario to the north and the Janiculum to the south. Of old the area now covered by the sn7all Vati-can State was called Ager Vaticanus and it was occupied by a circus and Nero's gardens. Since 1929, the year in which the Lateran Treaty was stipulated betueen the Holy See and the Italian State, the Vatican City has been an independent sovereign state and it contains exceedingly important examples of art and architecture. The boundaries of this state, whose residents can be numbered in the handreds, is defined by the Via Porta Angelica, Piazza del Risorgimento, Via Leone IV, the Viale Vaticano, Via della Sagrestia, and the Piazza San Pietro. The Pope, in addition to being the head of the Apostolic Roman Cattolic Church, has full legislative, executive and judiciary powers. The Vatican State is completely independent of the Italian state, even thongh they maintain extremely friendly relations. The Vatican prints its own stamps, has its own railrood station, and a well-known newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, which is distributed throngout Italy. The city also has its own police force (once called Pontifical Gendarmes) and a realpolice service as represented by the famous " Swiss Guards " which, from the early 16th century, protected the person of the pope and still today wear uniforms that uere probably designed by Michelangelo. |
useful link:Vatican Museums - collection of 1.400 pictures
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