🇻🇦 Vatican

Hej! I share an extract of my experience of 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 also does not cover all the wonderful local attributes 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 artifacts:

• The Catholic Church (Ecclesia Catholica)
• The Pope’s Weekly Public Audiences (Audientiis Publicis Summi Pontificis)

🦉 Local wisdom: “In the face of unjust and painful situations, faith brings us the light which scatters the darkness” / “ Contra iniustas ac laboriosas condiciones fides nos lucem profert quae tenebras spargit ” — Pope Francis

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