Located on high ground northwest Italian capital Rome City State, stands Vatican City State, an area 0.44 square kilometers, is the world's smallest countries. In the Vatican walls for the community, including St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Basilica, the Apostolic Palace and so on. The main population of Italians, Catholic. The capital of the Vatican City. Start the 4th century AD, the Roman city bishop advantage of the decline of the Roman Empire, took the opportunity to plunder the land, get the actual right to rule the city of Rome in the 6th century, known as the "Pope." 756 years of Frankish king Pepin the area around the city of Rome to the pope. Since then there have been in central Italy with Rome as its capital, "Papal States" and its territory more than a change. Kingdom of Italy in 1870 to destroy the Papal States, Pope relegated to the Vatican palace, the end of the secular power. February 11, 1929 to obtain the support of the Pope Mussolini, signed the "Lateran Treaty" with the Holy See, the Vatican is a sovereign state belonging to recognize the Pope, the Pope has the right to rule secular in its territory. The Vatican is a national theocracy. The Pope is the head, with the legislative, judicial and executive powers. The Pope himself as a "representative of Christ alive." Pope by Cardinal group members with 2/3 majority of elected office for life. The Vatican is now more than 100 countries and regions sent there "to make holy," "stands to make holy" or "Apostolic Delegate."
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Vatican City
Vatican City is the capital of Vatican City State, the center of the Catholic world, the Holy See is located, is located in the northwest corner of the Italian capital Rome, the Vatican high ground, north, west and south walls have separated from 3 sides Rome, and to the east of St. Peter's Square with the City of Rome unimpeded within the chip area of only 0.44 square kilometers which is about 1400 people, only 500 of the city's resident population, the population density of about 3181 persons / sq km area, focused on a number of unparalleled masterpieces of art and architecture, built on the tomb of the apostle St. Peter's Cathedral is the center of the city, is also the world's largest religious building. In 1984 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will be included in the Vatican City World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. Vatican City State is a special world, the Vatican is the territory of the Vatican city state. Vatican City as early as the 8th century AD, has become the center of the Papal States. In 1870 the Kingdom of Italy annexed the Papal States, Pope relegated to the Vatican City. In 1929 the Italian government signed a treaty with the Pope formally recognize the existence of the Vatican City State, led by the Holy See to the pope, the Vatican City State sovereignty belongs to the Pope, has its own currency, postal services, telecommunications and civil institutions, is theocratic regime, The Pope is the head of state. Vatican City State, except in a number of domestic tourism revenue, the country's economic dependence on foreign lot of land, investments, gold and foreign exchange reserves, and operates a variety of industries multinationals is a huge international financial trust. Vatican City area is small, but very well-known monuments, the city building with a strong religious overtones. Vatican city slightly triangular, 1045 meters from east to west, north-south width of 805 meters, buildings, gardens, courtyards and squares of each of the total area of 1/3. There are famous buildings downtown St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square, the Vatican Palace, Vatican Museums, Vatican Library, Vatican Observatory and the like. Located in St. Peter's Basilica St. Peter's Square to the west, east to west, 187 meters, 137 meters wide from north to south, 138 meters high dome dome, built in the year 1626, is an Italian Renaissance and the Baroque palace of art, for the whole the world's largest Roman Catholic church and the center of the church, is a Catholic pilgrimage in Europe since 1870, almost all the important religious ceremony held here. St. Peter's Basilica where Pope buried generations of St. bone, is the world's largest funeral memorial. Church architecture, painting, sculpture, collections, are regarded as art. St. Peter's Square with St. Peter's Basilica is a group of integral architectural whole. Square, 340 meters long, 240 meters wide, is surrounded by an oval double colonnade, a total of 284 columns and 88 square columns, column end stands the 140 statues of saints, the scale of the vast, magnificent. Central square stands a tall obelisk 26 meters of building stone monument that year came from Egypt shipped. Top stood a stone cross, lying four bronze lions on the base, on each side of a fountain. St. Peter's Square is a masterpiece of Italian Baroque architecture, known as the most symmetrical world's most magnificent square. 12:00 every Sunday, people gathered in the square to listen to the Pope's stand on the palace window Matins words. Vatican Palace is located across St. Peter's Square, since the 14th century has been the Pope's ancient _set_tlers of the Department, for hundreds of years has been rebuilt several times. Vatican palace has chapel, hall, palace, is the hub of the Catholic world. The palace has the world-famous Sistine chapel, in the past has been the Pope's private use by the Church. Sistine chapel ceiling and walls are known for the preservation of Michelangelo spent four years drawing the famous mural "Genesis" and "Last Judgment" and prestigious, which comes from the artist's hand drawing, based on the content "Bible" in the story, the characters vivid, lifelike, called art. Sistine chapel length of 40.5 meters, 13.3 meters wide, 20.7 meters high, is recognized as an architectural masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. St. Peter's Church, north of the Vatican Museums, covering about 55,000 square meters, was built in the 5th century, the early stage of a papal palace, and later integrated into the museum, with 12 galleries and five art galleries, Art brings together the essence of Greek and Roman antiquity and the Renaissance, Raphael collection of Renaissance art treasures, one of the three artists, and other masters of the original, are priceless. The Vatican Library was built in 1475, a collection of ancient manuscripts six rolls, 10 rolls of manuscript books, 100,000 maps and paintings as well as a large number of letters printed, codes and other documents, is the world's most precious library. Surprisingly, the museum also holds there from 1612 to 1659 made the "Map of China" manuscripts.
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English Expression
n.: Vatican City
French Expression
n. Vatican (地名)
Containing Phrases
Stato della Citta del Vaticano
Classification details
Sistine Chapel
Saint Peter cathedral
The Vatican City State Museum
Saint Peter Square
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