🇻🇦 Vatican

Hej! I’m sharing a glimpse of my experience visiting blessed Vatican. I was there in the winter of 2024. Below are some notes on what I tasted, saw and listened to.
Important: I only share my own experience and recommend the things I personally tried and liked. Therefore, everything written below is extremely subjective, and does not cover all the wonderful local features and places ☺️.

🗺 Places: Vatican City.

🏛 Top sights visited:

1. Vatican City
   • St. Peter’s Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri)
   • Vatican Museums (Musea Vaticana)
   • The Sistine Chapel (Sacellum Sixtinum)
   • Gardens of Vatican City (Horti Civitatis Vaticanae)

🎧 Local musicians:

• 🇻🇦 Sistine Chapel Choir (choir). Genre: religious

🥘 Local food & drinks:

• Dry Red Wine (Vinum Siccum Rubrum)
• Baked Pasta (Coxit Adipiscing)
• Grissini (Grissini)

🎬 Local movies:

• The Two Popes (Duo Pontifices). Year: 2019. Genres: drama

🪔 Authentic features:

• Catholicism (Ecclesia Catholica)
• The Papal Audiences (Audientiae Papae)
• The Papal Conclave Ritual (Conclavus Papae)
• The Papal Regalia and Insignia (Insignia et Regalia Papalia)
• Authentic Musical Instrument: Pipe Organ (Organum)
• The Heritage of the Papal States (Status Pontificius)

💐 National flower: Easter Lily (Lilium Longiflorum)

🦉 Local wisdom: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” / “Omnes tenebrae in mundo non possunt lucem unius candelae extinguere. ” — St. Francis of Assisi

👨‍🎓 The oldest university: The Pontifical Lateran University (Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis), Rome (Holy See), est. 1773.