Vatican City today.(attractions)(Brief Article)

Faces: People, Places, and Cultures | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

Stato della Citta del Vaticano (the State of Vatican City) is one-eighth the size of New York City's Central Park, one-fourth the size of Monaco, and smaller than the average 400-home suburban neighborhood. Vatican guides report that most people can walk the perimeter of the Vatican in 60 minutes or less.

Yet this tiny independent state (the world's smallest) maintains a position of great global importance. Why? Vatican policies influence more than 960 million Roman Catholics, citizens of virtually every other nation on earth. Although the Vatican maintains a neutral ...

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