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  2. Tourism in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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    Tourism is one of the principal sources of revenue in the economy of Vatican City. In 2007 about 4.3 million tourists visited the Vatican Museums alone. [3] Tourism is the main cause of the Vatican's unusually high crime rate: tourists are blamed for various minor thefts and incidents. [4]

  3. Dark Rome Tours & Walks - Wikipedia

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    Dark Rome Tours is a tour company which offers guided tours in Rome, the Vatican, [1] [2] Florence, Venice, Milan and Paris. They specialize in small group tours which access to major historical and cultural sites without waiting in line. [ 3 ]

  4. List of Christian pilgrimage sites - Wikipedia

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    Vatican City – location of Saint Peter's Basilica, relics of various saints (such as John Paul II), relics of the Passion of Christ, and headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church Rome – the site of the deaths of early martyrs ( Colosseum ), the sanctuaries of many saints, such as Ignatius of Loyola , and papal basilicas with important relics

  5. Raphael Rooms - Wikipedia

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    Visual Tour of the Raphael Rooms, with identifications of figures in frescoes; Raphael Rooms' 360x180 degree panorama virtual tour; The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the Raphael Rooms (pp. 111–123)

  6. List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia

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    Nations visited by Pope John Paul II During his reign, Pope John Paul II ("The Pilgrim Pope") made 146 pastoral visits within Italy and 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined. In total he logged more than 1,167,000 km (725,000 mi). He consistently attracted large crowds on his travels, some among the largest ever assembled. While some of his trips (such as to the United ...

  7. Vatican Museums - Wikipedia

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    The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in ...

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