Plan a trip to Vatican City

Places to see in Vatican City

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo FuorUNESCO

  Centro storico di Roma, le proprietà extraterritoriali della Santa Sede e la basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura

  Landmark

  Photo: Bert Kaufmann from Roermond, Netherlands (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map

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  St. Peter's Basilica

  Basilica di San Pietro

  Religious

  The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Alvesgaspar (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Sistine Chapel

  Cappella Sistina

  Religious

  The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: The original uploader was Snowdog at Italian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Apostolic Palace

  Palatium Apostolicum

  Heritage site

  The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Papal Palace, the Palace of the Vatican and the Vatican Palace.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Burkhard Mücke (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Vatican Museums

  Musei Vaticani

  Culture

  The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the best-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.

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  St. Peter's Square

  Piazza San Pietro

  Landmark

  St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo.

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  Raphael Rooms

  Stanze di Raffaello

  Museum

  The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop.

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  Vatican Hill

  Colle Vaticano

  Mountain

  Vatican Hill is a hill in Rome, located on the right bank of Tiber river, opposite to the traditional seven hills of Rome. The hill also gave the name to Vatican City. It is the location of St. Peter's Basilica.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Workshop of Pieter van Aelst / After Raphael (Public domain). Map

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  Saint Peter's tomb

  tomba di Sancti Pietro

  Ruins

  Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to memorialize the location of Saint Peter's grave. The site of St.

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  Vatican obelisk

  Obelisco Vaticano

  Memorial

  The Vatican Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome. This obelisk is located in St. Peter's Square, in Vatican City. It is the only ancient obelisk in Rome that has never fallen.

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  Vatican Necropolis

  Ruins

  The Vatican Necropolis is a necropolis that lies underneath Vatican City containing tombs dating from the first to fourth century AD, at depths varying between 5 and 12 metres below Saint Peter's Basilica.

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  Mater Ecclesiae Monastery

  Monasterium Mater Ecclesiae

  Religious

  The Mater Ecclesiae Monastery is a monastery in Vatican City. It was founded around 1990 by Pope John Paul II as a monastery for cloistered nuns who pray specifically for the health of the pope. Various cloistered orders are invited to take up residence for a time.

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