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📷 Hummingbirds, Giovanni da Udine (Italian, 1487-1564), detail from Pillar XI of the Raphael Rooms, Vatican Loggia, c. 1517-19

Raffaello Sanzio, The School of Athens - Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Raphael died before the Raphael Rooms were finished, so his assistants completed the frescoes for him. 

Friends, today in this article we will discuss the smallest cities in the world, identify the smallest cities in the world. They can both be found in Rome, Italy, as Vatican City is both a city and a nation. The tiny city-state is much smaller than Monaco’s next smallest country, with a total area of ​​only 0.17 square miles.

Interesting facts about Vatican City

No prisons are located in Vatican City

The Pope is being protected by Swiss Guards

Shortest train track in the world

In Vatican City, there is no permanent citizenship

There is an ATM with Latin instructions.

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The past of Vatican Museums dates back to the 1503’s. This was the year when Pope Julius II decided to give away his private collection of art in the form of a donation. Since then the private families and the other popes kept adding to the collection, and now it is a mammoth in the art world.

Here, you explore art. Get a visual of Michaelangelo’s masterpiece the Sistine chapel, David and tons others. The artwork in here is really intricate with a fair sense of the wants of a tourist and beautiful enough to draw the attention of the Gods themselves. Artifacts and trapesteries adorn the place, so do the scheduled art shows. The spiral stairs are as divine as anything can get, and there's a overwhelming touch to everything

Attractions Inside The Vatican Museums:

1. The Spiral Staircase

While stepping inside the museum, this impressive spiral staircase will take you through the extensive  journey of exploring the artistic paradise. The staircase was designed by Giuseppe Momo, in 1832,  which today serves to be the most photographed staircase in the whole wide world. The staircase is commonly known as the Snail’s staircase and has a sheer size. It was built out of two iron rods engraved stairways. That said, it has a double helix like structure.

2. The Raphael Rooms

The Raphael rooms are four rooms across the Vatican museum. These have been the residence of Popes for as long as 1507-1585. These were painted by Raphael and his pupils. It is very candid and how the rooms come together as a piece of art and architecture is actually breathtaking. Tourists have lost their patience over being in them.   They  cast a quaint glow over the already mammoth must visits of Rome.

3. Gregorian Egyptian Museum

The Gregorian Egyptian Museum is the home to ancient artifacts which originated from ancient Egypt.  It was founded by Pope Gregory XVI, in 1839. This museum has 9 rooms. The historical treasures here will take you  to explore ancient Egypt in perspective. The 9 rooms are shelter to sculptures, statues and clay figurines which were taken from Rome and Villa Adriana in Tivoli 

4. Vatican Historical Museum and the Portraits Of The Popes

This was built in 1973, and serves to be one of the modern museums among the Vatican museums. It portrays the collection of  donated items by popes from the sixteenth century till today. This place also has the pope mobiles or the “papamobile”. It portrays the evolution from the first carts and carriages to what becomes of it now. 

5. Sistine Chapel

The sistine chapel indeed is of great wonder as it holds unto itself no compre for art. It is absolutely delightful, and the Biblical inferences are of sheer brilliance. One cannot skip the city without taking a look at this. It is mesmerizing, and would take one's breath away. There are other pieces of art to marvel at too. for example, carpets , and whole painted rooms and paintings that take one back to the history books.

6. Papal Throne

Here you get to admire the beauty of the red marble papal stone. It stands at the Vatican city, which basically originated from the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop in Rome. The shining red marble commands respect as it showcases royalty and is complimented by the frescoes and mosaics lined up in the gallery. 

7. Gallery Of Maps

Like the name suggests, this space holds a series of painted Topographical maps all of which were commissioned in the 1580. Ignazio Danzi was the one who took three years to complete these 40 panels. It is located at the west side of the Belvedere courtyard. This gallery is spread across an area of a hundred and twenty meters and is a heritage site for all the art lovers. 

8. Sala Rotonda

Raphael Rooms at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City