Required travel documents for Vatican City

Required travel documents for Vatican City: passport/identity card [...]

Electric power

Electric power: 220V / 50 Hz [...]

Area code to Vatican City

Area code to Vatican City: +396 [...]

Getting to the Basilica

When going to the Basilica make sure to go to the right of the St. Peter's Square. Only from there you can get in, when you are cleared through the luggage control. [...]

The Pope's Guards

Favorite Thing: The pope's guards in Vatican still wear they traditional uniforms. In fact, they are highly trained soldiers. [...]

Cortile Ottagono

Description: This is the oldest part of the Vatican Museums. Pope Julius II (1503-1513) collected some sculptures and placed them in what today is the Cortile Ottagono within the museum complex.

The Egyptian Museum

Description: Pope Gregory XVI had the Gregorian Egyptian Museum founded in 1839. It houses monuments and artefacts of ancient Egypt partly coming from Rome and from Villa Adriana (Tivoli), where they had been transferred mostly in the Imperial age, and p [...]

Holy See - Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore is one of Rome's four patriarchal basilicas. he main facade was added in the 18th century, preserving the glorious 13th-century mosaics of the earlier facade. With a baroque interior and a Romanesque bell tower, the basili [...]

Holy See - Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano

Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano was founded by Constantine in the 4th century. It is the first Christian basilica constructed in Rome. This is the city's official cathedral and one of the most important in the Christian world. The heads of Saints Pet [...]

Holy See - Vatican Museums

Entrance to the stunning Vatican Museums is on the northern border of the Holy See. Comprised of several museums and galleries, the museum complex is home to Syrian, ancient Greek, ancient Roman and Egyptian relics; ancient and Renaissance sculptures; mar [...]

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