Vatican City Vacations, Vatican City Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Vatican City Vacation Guide

Considered to be one of the smallest countries in the world. Although situated in Rome, Italy, the Vatican City or State of the Vatican City, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.

The Vatican City is home to the Basilica di San Pietro (St. Peter's Basilica), Sistine Chapel, Musei Vaticano (The Vatican Museum) and of course, home to the Pope who serves as the Head of State.

The Basilica houses the remains of St. Peter (one of the twelve Apostles) and some of the greatest paintings & sculptures including Michaelangelo's famous marble sculpture - The Pietà. The Basilica is also the last resting place of prominent people of the Catholic faith including mummified bodies of Popes including Pope John XXIII.

The Vatican Museum of course houses an extensive collection of Catholic relics, tapestries, artworks and sculptures which are thousands of years old. But worth waiting for to see is the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel, of course, holds some Michaelangelo's greatest work - The Last Judgement and the chapel ceiling that depics stories from the Book of Genesis (i.e. Creation of Adam). Paintings by the most respected painters of the 15th century: Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, and Luca Signorelli, can also be found on the walls of the Sistine Chapel.