Have you visited Vatican City?
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
November 7, 2015 7:09am CST
I am not a Catholic but after reading the Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, I find that the Vatican City is a captivating place.
If I have the chance to visit Italy, I will pay a visit to the Vatican City.
Have you visited it?
What do you do there? What do you find interesting?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
7 Nov 15
My first visit was in 1975, during my first holiday job. I was working for a tour operator, and I traveled with several groups in Italy. One of these groups visited Rome and the Vatican City ; the program was even including a Papal audience, and I saw the Pope (Paul VI at this time). I went there 2 or 3 times since. Vatican is very small. Once you have visited St. Peter's Basilica, Sistine Chapel and the Museum, you know it all. This said, you can spend days in the Museum, and each time I came in Vatican I visited again the Sistine Chapel, which is a beautiful place.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
7 Nov 15
@scheng1 The only Dan Brown's book that I read is the Da Vinci Code. I lived not far from Saint-Sulpice when I was in Paris, and I appreciated that he focused on this forgotten/despised church that I love. If you don't enjoy arts, you can still go to the Vatican a Sunday to assist to a Papal mass : there is a lot of people, Swiss guards... it is also interesting.
@allknowing (136778)
• India
8 Nov 15
My Europe package tour included Italy and a visit to the Vatican. What I missed most was the scene at that window where the Pope is normally seen waving at the public below. Whatever I could see was worth that visit.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
8 Nov 15
I bet the Vatican now is the same Vatican as the 70s.
For a place with such a long history, the absence of 40 years is about the same as 10 minutes.
I just wonder how many hidden passages are there, and whether part of the hidden passages will be opened to tourists.
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