| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Square
|
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St Peter's Square is the entrance of St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican City.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Square
|
 |
St Peter's Square is within the territory of the Vatican City.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Square
|
 |
The square is actually an ellipse (340m by 240m).
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Square
|
 |
The columns around the square.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Square
|
 |
The obelysk was brought to Rome by Caligula.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
St Peter's Basilica is the world's largest church, dating from 1506.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The facade is 115m long and 46m high.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Statues of Jesus Christ (5.7m high) and the Apostles.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Carved marble clock.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The facade is classical.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Michaelangelo's dome.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The Swiss Guards protect the Vatican City.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The interior of the Basilica.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The dome is 119m high.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Wall painting.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The basilica can hold up to 60 thousand worshipers.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Shrine with Sun symbols and Greek mosaic.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Decorated ceiling and arches.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The Pieta, sculptured by Micaelangelo.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The 29m high canopy for the Baldacchino Altar.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The Vatican Grottos.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Bronze statue of St Peter.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Close up of St Peter.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Mosaic of the Madonna.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
One of the side altars.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Woman praying.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Inlay wall.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
Good Friday Mass with Pope Paul II.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
The dome area.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
View from the roof.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : St Peter's Basilica
|
 |
View across Rome which surrounds the Vatican City.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
The Vatican City is the world's smallest state, 0.44 sq km.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
The 1930 Palace of the Governorate of Vatican City State.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
The gardens of the Vatican.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
One of the many buildings in the gardens.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
View of the Vatican radio station.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
Visitors relaxing.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
The gardens near the Vatican Library.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
View of the dome of St Peter's.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Gardens
|
 |
Administration buildings.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Administration
|
 |
The Vatican has its own flag, stamps and laws.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Administration
|
 |
The radio station.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
District : Vatican Administration
|
 |
The railway station.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Papal Appartments
|
 |
The Papal Appartments are the residence of the Pope.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Papal Appartments
|
 |
Decorated ceiling.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Papal Appartments
|
 |
Apartment wall painting.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Papal Appartments
|
 |
Modern sculpture.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The Vatican Museum, previously a palace.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The extensive buildings of the Vatican Museum.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Tourists waiting to enter the museum.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The grounds of the museum.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
In the palace grounds.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Carved fruit.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The palace is on many levels.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Large entrance portal.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The spiral staircase built in 1932.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Paintings in the Egyptian Museum.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Egyptian mummy.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Egyptian stone relief.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Egyptian tomb painting.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The Egyptian deity, Anubis.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Part of a Roman carved stone sarcophagus.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Roman mosaic.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Bust of Julius Caesar.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The Emperor Hadrian.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Augustus.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Statue of a Roman female.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Floor mosaic of Neptune.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Elaborate floor mosaic.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Figures on swans.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek relief carving.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Perseus with the head of Medusa.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek sculpture of a woman and a girl.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The Laocoonte Group. They were found in Rhodes in the 1st century and date from 30 BCE.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
The Three Graces.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek funerary sculpture.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek sarcophagus.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Detail of Greek sarcophagus.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek sculpture of a dog attacking a deer.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Gold bowl.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Painted Greek bowl.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Zeus relaxing.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Greek sculpture of a lion attacking a horse.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Man fighting a horse.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Bust of Socrates.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Unusual sculpture.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Wooden furniture carving.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Museum
|
 |
Argentinian cross.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
The Vatican Library contains centuries of exhibits.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
The library has many paintings.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Painting by Raphael.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Geocentric model of the world.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Paintings of the Moon and planets being studied by Galileo.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
The notebook of mathematician and astronomer, Galileo Galileii.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Globe with constellations.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Religious exhibit.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library.
|
1987 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Vatican Library
|
 |
Brass mirror.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Sistine Chapel
|
 |
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo. The Vatican City is the world's smallest republic, totally surrounded by Italy but separate from it.
|
1994 |
| Vatican City |
City / Town : The Vatican
Site / Event : Sistine Chapel
|
 |
The paintings cover the entire chapel.
|
1994 |
were added from 1 February 2025.