Treasures of the Vatican
April 19, 2019
DrFumblefinger visits the Vatican Museum and its age-old collections.
DrFumblefinger visits the Vatican Museum and its age-old collections.
Castel Gandolfo, the rich papal summer palace outside Rome, will now be open to visitors, starting October 21. Within the palace, the Pope’s sumptuous apartment
A McDonalds due to open on the ground floor of a Vatican building in which several cardinals live has stirred them to protest.
Taking advantage of a small (only Monaco and the Vatican are smaller) piece of Europe that is apparently unclaimed by either of its neighbors, Croatia
Apparently Pope Francis’s popularity is fueling a tourist boom at the Vatican; almost 3 times as many tourists in his first 9-1/2 months as in all of the previous year, according to the online business journal Quartz. MORE
When visiting the Vatican you leave Italy and enter another country, albeit a very small (110 acre) country with only a few hundred permanent residents.
DrFumblefinger visits the Vatican Museum and its age-old collections.
Castel Gandolfo, the rich papal summer palace outside Rome, will now be open to visitors, starting October 21. Within the
A McDonalds due to open on the ground floor of a Vatican building in which several cardinals live has stirred them to protest.
Taking advantage of a small (only Monaco and the Vatican are smaller) piece of Europe that is apparently unclaimed by
Apparently Pope Francis’s popularity is fueling a tourist boom at the Vatican; almost 3 times as many tourists in his first 9-1/2 months as in all of the previous year, according to the online business journal Quartz. MORE
When visiting the Vatican you leave Italy and enter another country, albeit a very small (110 acre) country with only a few hundred permanent residents.