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A Tour of the Vatican

The Madonna of
The Vatican, a center of power for Catholics Guadalupe shows
all over the world and a sovereign state the miraculous
since February 1929, is ruled by the pope. image of the
About 1,000 people live here, staffing the Madonna that
Vatican’s amenities. These include a post appeared on
the cloak of
office and stores; Vatican radio, broad- an indigenous
casting to the world in over 20 languages; Mexican in 1531.
a daily newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano);
Vatican offices; and a publishing house.
Papal heliport
The Grotto of
Lourdes is a replica
of the grotto in the
southwest of France,
where in 1858 the
Virgin appeared to
St. Bernadette.

Radio Vatican is
broadcast from this
The Vatican Train Station, tower, part of the
opened in 1930, connects with Leonine Wall built
the line from Rome to Viterbo, in 847.
but is now used only for freight.

The Papal Audience
Chamber, by Pier Luigi
Nervi, was opened in 1971.
It seats up to 12,000.

The information office
gives details of tours of the
Vatican Gardens.

1 . St. Peter’s
The Chapel of St. Peter is in the
Grottoes under the basilica. The P I A Z Z A DEL
rich marble decoration was added SANT’UFFIZIO
by Clement VIII at the end of the P I A Z Z A
16th century. SAN PIETRO

Key Piazza San Pietro was laid out
Suggested route by Bernini between 1656 and
1667. The narrow space in front
of the church opens out into
0 meters 150 an enormous ellipse flanked
0 yards 150 by colonnades.

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