We visited the world’s smallest country, the Vatican, with an area of 5 km², the spiritual center of the Catholic sect. It has an interesting feature that while you are entitled to citizenship as long as you work in this country, it loses citizenship as soon as you leave.
Mosaics, paintings, paintings, sculptures and carpets in the Vatican Museum are worth seeing.. The sections inside are:
- Ancient Art Department: The area where Egyptian collections and mummies are located.
- Rooms of Raphael : Pope Julius II commissioned Raphael to build this room.
- Sistine Chapel : It was named after Pope Sixtus IV.
Leaving the subway at the San Pietro exit, we followed the Museum signs and arrived at the entrance of the museum after a long walk.. The entrance queue is meters long, since we buy our tickets online (19 euros per person), the attendant at the online reservation section reads the barcode on our tickets with a device in their hand and goes to the museum in seconds without queuing.. After converting the printout from the ticket offices inside to tickets, we were finally able to enter the museum after the final check.. There are a total of 1400 rooms in the museum.. One of the most striking rooms of the museum is the Raphael Rooms, where Raphael’s paintings on the walls are located, the other is the Sistine Chapel, which takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV.. After entering this room, on our left. On the wall right behind the statue of Jesus crucified, there is Michelangelo’s Last Judgment – The Last Judgment painting, which depicts the Day of Judgment.
Sistine Chapel – Last Judgment
The famous painter Michelangelo was able to create this work after 4 years of work on an area of 520 square meters. The exit of the museum is as impressive as the works in the museum, and the spiral staircase made by Giuseppe Momo sends off the visitors.
I think we spent about 3 hours in the museum. When we went to San Pietro Square, the garden was like a parent’s day.. There were serious queues both at the church entrance and in front of the Post.. I wanted so much to send a mail to a few friends from the Vatican Republic, but unfortunately I did not dare to get into that queue.. In front of the San Pietro Church, there was the same density of queues.. The church is famous for its dome.. After nearly 1000 years passed after Hagia Sophia in the 6th century, this structure was passed.. During the Renaissance, the most elegant examples of the dome were made by Mimar Sinan, more than the architects in Italy.. The construction of this church was finished at the end of the 16th century.. Vatican guarded by Swiss guards. Christians all over the world gather in this square on certain days.
Piazza San Pietro
Just right inside the basilica On the other hand, Michelangelo’s La Pieta should definitely be seen. La Pieta. After the crucifixion of Jesus with his lifeless body, Hz.. It is the statue depicted in the arms of the Virgin.
Short information about the Vatican’s history
Garibaldi’s troops conquered Rome Until the invasion, the papacy dominated central Italy up to the borders of Venice in the middle of Italy and the kingdom of Naples in the south.. This was called the papal state. The main target of the nationalists who want Italian unity is the papacy.. As a matter of fact, after the occupation of Rome, the center of the newly established kingdom was moved here from Turin.. And thereupon, the Pope became very angry at this state of affairs, and because he lost his worldly dominance, he left the Vatican and withdrew to the Church of San Pietro Laterona in the city.. And the Papacy began to rule the world from here. Between 1924-1926, Mussolini listened to the voice of the Italian people even though he was not Catholic and gave the Papacy its current status with the agreement made in Laterona. The Vatican is the smallest state in the world. The Vatican Sant Angelo Castle and the green zone next to it, as well as the Laterona Church in the novel and a few more churches, cover the area with a yellow line. The population of the Vatican consists of 1,500-2,000 Popes, cardinals, priests and nuns.. This is the most perfect, richest and best-managed museum in Europe and even in the world.. Since the Vatican is a state that protects its unlimited artistic riches, this state is desired to be lived.. No other state can protect and manage this cultural and artistic wealth so well.
Travel Date : October 2012
