Rome is an immense open museum where works of art, archaeological  remains and innumerable monuments were accumulated over the past 3 Millennia.
It is simply full of history with an enormous amount of spectacular ancient Roman monuments, including the Vatican City, The Forum, from where Julius Caesar once governed ancient Rome, the Colosseum and the ruins of the Circus Maximus. It is also a maze of interlocking piazzas, streets, fountains, vicoli that curve in on themselves. Rome is wide and intimate, pious and profane, indifferent and reverent, with a street life that is among the most vibrant to be found in Europe.
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Vatican City |
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Rome Vatican city - Museum/Sistine Chapel |
The Vatican City is actually the world's smallest independent sovereign state, established by the Lateran Treaties in 1929. It covers an area of just 108 acres / 43 hectares, situated entirely within the city of Rome, sprawling over a hill west of the River Tiber, and separated from the rest of the city by a wall.
The Vatican City is famous for its magnificent St Peter’s Basilica, the Pope’s residence, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museum, which contains the major works of art and valuable pictures. |
