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Chiesa di Santo Stefano

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
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Address:
Vicolo Scaletta S. Stefano, 2, 37129 Verona VR, Italy

The Papal States, officially the State of the Church , were a series of territories in the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope, from the 8th century until 1870. They were among the major states of Italy from roughly the 8th century until the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia unified the Italian Peninsula by conquest in a campaign virtually concluded in 1861 and definitively in 1870. At their zenith, the Papal States covered most of the modern Italian regions of Lazio , Marche, Umbria and Romagna, and portions of Emilia. These holdings were considered to be a manifestation of the temporal power of the pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy. By 1861, much of the Papal States' territory had been conquered by the Kingdom of Italy. Only Lazio, including Rome, remained under the Pope's temporal control. In 1870, the Pope lost Lazio and Rome and had no physical territory at all, except the Basilica of St Peter and the papal residence and related buildings around the Vatican quarter of Rome, which the new Italian state did not occupy militarily. The head of the Italian government, at the time the Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, ended the crisis between unified Italy and the Holy See by negotiating the Lateran Treaty, signed by the two parties in 1929. This recognized the sovereignty of the Holy See over a newly created international territorial entity, the Vatican City State, limited to a token territory.
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