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26/04/2023

The Vatican is an absolutist state. In the hands of the head of state, elected for life, the Pope, sovereign of the Holy See, all power is concentrated: legislative, executive and judicial. He exercises it through a Papal Commission composed of five cardinals, headed by an appointed governor. At present the head of the Vatican is Benedict XVI, elected pope in 2005 by two hundred and sixty-five cardinals. Cardinals have had the sole right to elect a pope since 1049, and only those who have not reached the age of 80 at the moment of election. The official languages of the Vatican are Latin and Italian.

26/04/2023

The Papal Lifeguard consists of a hundred stately Swiss Guards; they were first called into service by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Even today they are Catholics aged 19-25, citizens of Switzerland; their term of service ranges from 2 to 20 years. The Guards wear the traditional Renaissance uniform (Medici papal era) or the dark blue uniform for maneuvers.

26/04/2023

For almost 2,000 years, apart from short interruptions, the Vatican City has been located on the right bank of the Tiber on Vatican Hill. According to tradition, the first bishop of Rome, the Apostle Peter, was buried here and martyred. In the fourth century, under Emperor Constantine the Great, construction of the first church began on this site and a papal residence arose, which over the centuries grew into the Holy See ecclesiastical state - it ceased to exist in 1870. - ten years after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. As the Vatican stubbornly resisted its incorporation into the new independent Italian state, on September 20, 1870 Italian troops of the unification movement stormed the Pius Gate and, capturing the city, proclaimed Rome the capital of the Italian kingdom. But it was not until 1929 that Benito Mussolini succeeded in settling relations between the Holy See and the Italian state with the Lateran Accords, by which the Italian state recognized the sovereignty of the pope and the Vatican City as the area of his exclusive authority.

25/04/2023

However, this fake deed of gift, composed by papal scholars in 750-760, worked perfectly: even in 1850 the Holy See's ecclesiastical state included large parts of Central Italy, together with Lazio, Umbria, the Marche and Romagna. Nowadays, the entire Vatican City State, with its medieval walls, can easily be viewed from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

24/04/2023

The emergence of the Vatican is associated with the most famous forgery in European history: the so-called Constantine gift, which secured the pope's supreme authority over Rome and the Western Roman Empire, but turned out to be a simple paper fabricated in the papal curia.

22/04/2023

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22/04/2023

The state attributes of the Vatican are the white and yellow flag, the coat of arms with the image of Peter's keys and the tiara (crown) of the Pope, as well as a military force - the Swiss Guards. A hundred Guardsmen dressed in the ceremonial uniform of the 16th century guard the Holy See - the Pope and his palace. Besides the Vatican has its own telephone service, post office and banking system including the Commercial Bank L'Instituto per le Opere di Religione. The Vatican has its own train station, a special garbage disposal service, and a printing house. The Vatican produces nothing; all services, including power supply, are imported. But the Vatican owns its own radio station (Radio Vaticano) and two official publications: Acta Apostolicae Sedis and the daily Osservatore Romano (circulation 70,000 copies) distributed worldwide. The city-state, which pays no taxes, exists from donations, sales of coins and stamps, revenues from trade and manufacturing monopolies, and all kinds of industrial participation. Tourism is another significant source of income, as St. Peter's Cathedral and the Vatican Museums with their famous works of art attract tourists from all over the world.

21/04/2023

The Vatican is home to about 1,000 residents, half of whom are citizens of the state, with only twenty-five women among them. In addition, there are another 3,000 people serving in the Vatican. Thus the Vatican is the smallest state in the world, but it is also the center of the Catholic Church, to which some one billion of the faithful on all continents identify themselves. As such, the Vatican maintains diplomatic relations with about 170 of the 200 countries.

21/04/2023

The Vatican City includes St. Peter's Square, St. Peter's Cathedral, and the Vatican Gardens, mostly walled. The smallest state in the world (area - 0.44 km², population - about 1000 people) also includes the pontifical basilicas of Santa Maria Maggiore, San Paolo Fuori le Mura and San Giovanni in Laterano, administrative buildings and the papal summer residence in the castle of Castel Gandolfo.

20/04/2023

The Vatican City State, lies on the right bank of the Tiber and includes the sovereign papal state within Rome, formed to replace the papal state abolished in 1870 during the unification of Italy.

20/04/2023

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