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Vatican Hill Vatican Hill (/ˈvætɪkən/; Latin: Mons Vaticanus; Italian: Colle Vaticano) is a hill in Rome, located on the right bank of Tiber river, opposite...

Vatican City (/ˈvætɪkən/ ), officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano; Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked...

new nation. Although the Italians did not occupy the territories of Vatican Hill delimited by the Leonine walls and offered the creation of a city-state...

hot, dry summers (May to September). Vatican City sits on a low hill. The hill has been called the Vatican Hill (in Latin, Mons Vaticanus) since long...

Constantinian basilica. The Vatican necropolis was originally a burial ground built on the southern slope of the Vatican Hill, adjacent to the Circus of...

Church and sovereignty or governance over the city-state known as the Vatican City. As the supreme body of government of the Catholic Church, the Holy...

Vatican Athletics (Latin: Athletica Vaticana) is a sports organization associated with Vatican City. Established as an athletics club of the city state...

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome. They display works from the...

The Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (Latin: Pontificia Commissio pro Civitate Vaticana, Italian: Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della...

Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to memorialize the location of Saint Peter's...

Vaticanus may refer to: Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons), a location of Holy See Vagitanus or Vaticanus, an Etruscan god Codex Vaticanus (disambiguation)...

The flag of Vatican City, also referred to as the flag of the Holy See, was adopted in 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy...

A number of temples to Cybele in Rome have been identified. Originally an Anatolian mother goddess, the cult of Cybele was formally brought to Rome during...

monuments to their martyred apostles, to Peter in a necropolis on the Vatican Hill, to Paul on the road to Ostia, at the traditional sites of their burial...

Janiculum Hill (Gianicolo) Monte Mario Oppian Hill (Oppio) Palatine Hill (Palatino) Pincian Hill (Pincio) Vatican Hill (Vaticano) Velian Hill (Velia) Viminal...

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council...

Quirinale) Viminal Hill (Collis Viminalis; Viminale) The Vatican Hill (Latin Collis Vaticanus) lying northwest of the Tiber, the Pincian Hill (Mons Pincius)...

Sport in Vatican City plays an important role in the culture of the nation. The Vatican's attitude toward sport has been generally positive; outside of...

Monte Mario Oppian Hill (Oppio) Pincian Hill (Pincio) Quirinal Hill (Quirinale) Vatican Hill (Vaticano) Velian Hill (Velia) Viminal Hill (Viminale) This...

The Vatican City State is a neutral nation, which has not engaged in any war since its formation in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty. It has no formal military...