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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 ...
The Gallery of Maps [1] (Italian: Galleria delle carte geografiche) is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
Airports in Vatican City: none. Rome is served by two airports which are used by travellers to the Vatican. Rail transport in Vatican City; Roads in Vatican City (see map) Being only 1.05 km long and 0.85 km wide, [18] Vatican City has no highways. Vatican City has access roads and driveways. (See map)
List of museums in Rome. The city contains vast quantities of priceless art , sculpture and treasures , which are mainly stored in its many museums . List of museums divided by category, the main museums: [ 1 ]
The Vatican Museums are home to some of the most magnificent artworks in the world, but one of their least-visited collections is becoming its most contested before Pope Francis's trip to Canada.
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The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity such as The Good Shepherd. [1] The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, [2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology by Giuseppe Marchi and Giovanni Battista de Rossi.
The Vatican Historical Museum (Italian: Museo storico vaticano) is one of the sections of the Vatican Museums. It was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI, [1] and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.