A trip to the Italian capital, Rome, in addition to feeling the city's long and profound historical and cultural heritage, there is also a landlocked city-state country with a very mysterious "small country "- the Vatican. The Vatican is situated in the highlands of the northwest corner of Rome, bordering Italy on all sides, so it is known as "China ".
The first time I heard about the Vatican, I was full of reveries about the country. On a trip to Rome, Italy, I finally got my wish to visit the shenyang to shanghai Vatican. The Vatican, the world's smallest and least populous country, has a territory of just 0.44 square kilometers. In other words, the entire Vatican is a St. Peter's Cathedral.
The Vatican's St. Peter's Cathedral, the world's largest Catholic church, has a prestigious reputation. It is the center of Catholicism around the world - the seat of the papal-led Holy See, the pilgrimage site for Catholics around the world, the center of faith for one-sixth of the world's population. Therefore, although the Vatican State is small, it contains infinite "energy ".
I took the subway line A from the central railway station in Rome to get off at the Vatican Museum Station, followed the crowd after leaving the station, and in about five minutes I came to the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, where visitors came and went in and out of the semicircular square, crowded and bustling. In the square, the legendary "world's smallest country" can be seen at a glance.
The Vatican means "the city of the prophets ". Back in the 4th century AD, the Pope built the Constantine Cathedral to commemorate the death of St. Peter's disciple in the north-west corner of the city of Rome. By the 15th and 16th centuries, the Church had been converted into the "St. Peter's Cathedral ", the main site of the Catholic Church.
After Italy's reunification in 1870, the pope retreated to the Vatican. In 1929, Italy signed a treaty with the pope, and the Vatican was recognized as a sovereign state of unity of religion and religion, becoming a neutral state. The Vatican's St. Peter's Square, in front of St. Peter's Cathedral, is designed by architect Bernini to accommodate half a million people for religious purposes and has a border line in front of it.
St Peter's Cathedral, the Vatican's national symbol, is the center of the pope's political and religious activities. It was first built by Constantine the Great in 326 AD, and later in the 16th century, Pope Julio II was rebuilt in the original site and the church was completed in 1626. Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and other Renaissance art giants have participated in the design, construction, decoration of the church, showing flights to shenyang symmetry aesthetics, perspective aesthetics, proportional aesthetics and so on.
As the most outstanding Renaissance building and the largest church in the world, St. Peter's Cathedral is large, beautifully decorated, elegant and sacred, with a 42m diameter vault in the center of the church,138m tall, with a total area of 23,000m2 and a capacity of up to 60,000. The whole building presents the cross structure, the Roman style dome and the Greek style stone pillar are skillfully combined, the interior decoration is magnificent, the sculpture mural is exquisite, is the European Renaissance architectural treasure.
The territory of the Vatican is triangular, including St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Cathedral, the Vatican Palace and the Vatican Museum, and other borders are marked by the ancient walls of the Vatican, except for St. Peter's Square. Every day there are a lot of visitors to the Vatican, and the square is full of tourists, and it seems that the whole country is occupied by tourists.
And to the Vatican, visitors can visit St. Peter's Cathedral and the Vatican Museum, especially the large number of people who visit St. Peter's Cathedral, and the square is full of long queues of visitors every day, suggesting that the visit can be early. The Vatican Museum, to the north of St Peter's Cathedral, is also well worth seeing, with its collection of rare artifacts and art treasures comparable to London's British Museum and the Louvre in Paris
