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Landmark Attractions In Vatican City

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Vatican City , officially Vatican City State , is an independent city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy. Established with the Lateran Treaty , it is distinct from yet under full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction of the Holy See . With an area of 44 hectares , and a population of about 1,000, it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population. The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the pope who is, religiously speaking, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various national origins. Since t...
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  • 1. St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) Vatican City
    St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, the papal enclave inside Rome, directly west of the neighbourhood or rione of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are named after Saint Peter, an apostle of Jesus and the first Catholic Pope. At the centre of the square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Doric colonnades, four columns deep, which embrace visitors in the maternal arms of Mother Church. A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno in 1613.
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  • 2. Sphere within a Sphere Vatican City
    Sphere Within Sphere is a bronze sculpture by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro. Versions of the sculpture can be seen in many settings worldwide, including:
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  • 3. Porta Santa Vatican City
    Augustus of Prima Porta is a 2.03 m high marble statue of Augustus Caesar, the first and one of the most significant emperors of Ancient Rome, which was discovered on April 20, 1863 in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. Augustus Caesar's wife Livia Drusilla, now known as Julia Augusta, retired to the villa after his death. The sculpture is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo of the Vatican Museums.
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  • 5. Vaticano Egyptian Obelisk Vatican City
    Vatican City , officially Vatican City State , is an independent city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy. Established with the Lateran Treaty , it is distinct from yet under full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction of the Holy See . With an area of 44 hectares , and a population of about 1,000, it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population. The Vatican City is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the pope who is, religiously speaking, the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various national origins. Since the return of the popes from Avignon in 1377, they have generally resided at the Apostolic Palace within what is now Vatican City, although a...
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  • 8. Palazzo del Governatorato Vatican City
    Palazzo Alicorni is a reconstructed Renaissance building in Rome, important for historical and architectural reasons. The palace, originally lying only a few meters away from Bernini's Colonnades in St. Peter's square, was demolished in 1930 in the wake of the process of the border definition of the newly established Vatican City state, and rebuilt some hundred meters to the east. According to the stylistic analysis, his designer had been identified as Giovanni Mangone, a Lombard architect active in Rome during the 16th century.
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