Presto - Vatican City Tours
Presto's Vatican City walking adventure tour gives you a peek into the colorful lives of the artists, Popes, saints, and emperors who lie behind the creation of the Roman Catholic state. Your Presto tour guide will share the religious significance, historic legends, myths, scandals, and secrets of the smallest country in the world, one that has attracted pilgrims, artists, and historians for over 2,000 years. Your Presto guide will lead you through the maze of the Vatican Museums, up to the Sistine Chapel, and into St. Peter's Basilica. Those joining this Vatican City Group VIP tour will enjoy special entrance into the Vatican Museums and will be able to enter the museums before the general public and hence avoid the long wait that the Vatican Museums are famous for. Enjoy a fabulous tour and skip the line. Presto! Just like that. Presto Tours.

Wiki Travel - Vatican City Vatican City (Citta del Vaticano), also incorrectly known as but popularly synonymous with the Holy See (Santa Sede) , is the last Papal state in existence and the temporal seat of the Pope, head of the worldwide Catholic Church. Situated within the city of Rome in Italy, the Vatican is the world's smallest state. Outside the Vatican City itself, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer residence, also enjoy extraterritorial rights. On April 19, 2005, Josef Cardinal Ratzinger was elected as Pope Benedict XVI.

Vatican City Tours
Meet the new head of the Roman Catholic Church. Your visit to Rome should include if at all possible a Papal Audience. It is quite difficult to obtain reservations for this limited attendance occasion especially in high season. Reservations must be made in advance (the general rule is at least 2 weeks prior to your desired audience) and the only way to guarantee this is in person. Staff will fill out the necessary papers and ensure that you receive your reservation.

Italian Visits - Vatican
Vatican City - or just "The Vatican" - is one of two independent countries completely surrounded by Italy. The other of course is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino in the north east. But The Vatican is smaller, indeed, it is the smallest country in the world, both by land area (.44 sq km) and by population (less than 1000).

Lonely Planet - Holy See
Not many religions actually own a country, but Catholicism isn't just any religion. The Holy See (Vatican City) is probably per square foot the richest independent state in the world, making up for its total lack of natural resources with an astonishing collection of priceless art treasures.

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