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2. Tourism in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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   Tourism is one of the principal sources of revenue in the economy of Vatican City. In 2007 about 4.3 million tourists visited the Vatican Museums alone. [3] Tourism is the main cause of the Vatican's unusually high crime rate: tourists are blamed for various minor thefts and incidents. [4]

3. Dark Rome Tours & Walks - Wikipedia

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   Dark Rome Tours is a tour company which offers guided tours in Rome, the Vatican, [1] [2] Florence, Venice, Milan and Paris. They specialize in small group tours which access to major historical and cultural sites without waiting in line. [ 3 ]

4. Raphael Rooms - Wikipedia

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   Visual Tour of the Raphael Rooms, with identifications of figures in frescoes; Raphael Rooms' 360x180 degree panorama virtual tour; The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the Raphael Rooms (pp. 111–123)

5. Apostolic Palace - Wikipedia

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   The Apostolic Palace [a] 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. The Vatican itself refers to the building as the Palace of Sixtus V, in honor of Pope Sixtus V, who built most of the present form of ...

6. Vatican Museums - Wikipedia

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   The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) 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 most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in ...

7. Borgia Apartments - Wikipedia

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   The works in the apartment are now considered part of the Vatican Library. The works were restored by repairing the plaster and stucco, cleaning the frescoes, and reworking the surfaces. [4] The lower half of some of the walls in the Borgia Apartments had to be removed, but some decorative remnants are still open for viewing.