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Location on a map of Vatican City The Casina Pio IV (or Villa Pia ) is a patrician villa in Vatican City which is now home to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences , the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas .
The Domus Sanctae Marthae (Latin for Saint Martha's House; Italian: Casa Santa Marta) is a building adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Completed in 1996, during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II , it is named after Martha of Bethany , who was a sibling to Mary and Lazarus of Bethany .
Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. At approximately 44 hectares (110 acres), it is the smallest independent nation in the world.
Initially, there was some resistance during the negotiations, particularly from the Roman government and Monsignor Antonio Garibaldi at Paris. However, Alessandro Torlonia (acting for the Holy See) held direct negotiations with James Mayer de Rothschild and thrashed out an agreement, signed on 30 November 1831.
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 ...
The Pope's window from which he delivers the Angelus.. The papal apartments is the non-official designation for the collection of apartments, which are private, state, and religious, that wrap around a courtyard (the Courtyard of Sixtus V, Cortile di Sisto V) [1] on two sides of the third (top) floor [2] of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
Vatican News is the official news portal of the Vatican and the Holy See, serving as a source of information about the activities, pronouncements, and events related to the global Catholic Church and the operations of the Holy See.
Part of the station building continues in use as passenger station and goods (rail freight) office, whilst part now houses the Vatican numismatic and philatelic museum. [21] The railway station also houses the small Vatican duty-free department store, a private facility open only to Vatican subjects and diplomats. [21] [12]