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- Welcome to the Vatican
- Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven
An amazing place in the world - Vatican City. The smallest state in the state church (territorial part of Rome), which produces nothing, holds a population of about a thousand people, mostly members of the papal administration and their families, and is a center of pilgrimage for tourists from around the world.
Attractions Vatican - is the pearl that adorns mankind.
Beautiful sculptures, palaces, gardens, a library created by geniuses of antiquity and the Renaissance, unsurpassed masters of Italian culture. The old saying "all roads lead to Rome" can rightly be supplemented: "And to the Vatican."
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Welcome to the Vatican
The main attraction of the Vatican - St. Peter's Basilica, whose relics are said to have been at the base of the foundation of the huge architectural structures.
In the creation of this great shrines of the Catholic world participated generation the greatest masters of the Renaissance (Donato Bramante, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Raphael, Giuliano da Sangallo), carefully preserving the continuity of the Christian meanings.
The founder of the idea of a cathedral of St. Peter Donato Bramante took as a basis for the design of this colossal temple of the cross as a symbol of unwavering faith.
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Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven
The Second Vatican landmark - Oval St. Peter's Square, on which the famous cathedral. It was designed by Italian architect Lorenzo Bernini in the shape of a keyhole, framed by 284 columns.
Colonnade designed so that when in its geometric center, it becomes transparent. Columns are hidden to each other at a certain angle.
This form is very symbolic reflects Christian tradition that the Apostles Peter is the keeper of the keys of the kingdom of heaven. In the center of St. Peter's Square is dvadtsatipyatimetrovy Egyptian obelisk mounted on the orders of Pope Sixtus Y.
Marble composition of Our Lady of Sorrows with lying on her lap Savior, Descent from the Cross, majestically located on the square. This masterpiece of the great Italian sculptor Michelangelo deservedly belongs to the priceless collection of the unique attractions of the city-state.
One of the treasures of the Vatican on the degree of divine perfection in the artistic execution is considered to be the Sistine Chapel. She is a tall rectangular building, painted inside with frescoes of great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
For the most part - it is the frescoes of Michelangelo Buanoratti. The attention of tourists all over the world revealed surprising in its execution fresco painter and sculptor of genius "The Creation of Man" and "The Last Judgment." Following the restoration famous frescoes for five hundred years, they retain their original brightness.
More than half of the small area of the Vatican (44 hectares) occupy the Vatican gardens. They presented exotic flora from different corners of the globe. Stay in the lap of beautifully manicured green attractions of the city-state promotes, according to many tourists, peaceful state of mind.
Vatican Library contains more than half million of its funds of manuscripts and printed books of famous theologians, philosophers and thinkers of antiquity and the Middle Ages. One of its halls is always locked to visitors.
Vatican leaves no one indifferent. Come to the Vatican City. He's waiting for you to devote to their secrets.
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