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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
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The State of the Vatican was officially founded in the Council hall in Palazzo del Laterano on February 11th 1929 with the signature of the Lateran Pacts. It was signed with a gold pen blessed by Pope Pius XI before representatives of Italy and the Holy See. The new State received sovereignty over the whole territory which included Vatican buildings, gardens, the square and the Basilica of St. Peter's plus some adjacent buildings as well as the summer residence of Castel Gandolfo. By virtue of this agreement, the State of Italy was absolutely against excavating galleries under the Vatican. Likewise it was forbidden to excavate under the Vatican as well as flying over its own territory.
Unesco declared the whole Vatican territory as being Vatican cultural heritage of the world.

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VATICAN MUSEUMS
The Vatican Museums can be reached by going along a slope outside the Vatican Walls along via del Vaticano.
Museums and Galleries Pontificie: viale Vaticano
The Vatican Historical Museum: is in Palazzo del Laterano at San Giovanni
Museum Historical Artistic - Tesoro di S. Pietro

THE BASILICA
The largest church in the world, 140 m. wide and 200 m. long, is surmounted by a dome 132 m. high, divided into 16 sections in which "eyes" open up to let in light.
The lower part of the basilica, consisting of a large portico, houses the equestrian statue of Constantine and of Charlemagne, defenders of the faith. It is from the central Balcony of Blessing over the portico that the election of the new pope is announced.
On the top of the portico there are 13 gigantic statues representing Christ and the Apostles.
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There are five doorways to the basilica, the most famous of which are the central one, with the doors from the original basilica decorated by Filarete and the last doorway to the right, the Holy Door opened only for the Jubilee once every 25 years.
The high altar in the central nave under the dome is reserved for the Pope and consists of a marble slab found in the Forum of Nerva. Above the high altar rises the baldacchino, created by Bernini from the bronze taken from the beams of the Pantheon; this same artist made the Cattedra of S. Pietro in the apse.
In the first chapel on the right there is the Pietà by Michelangelo. Hotel Rome

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