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    The document lists important landmarks within Vatican City, including Saint Peter's Basilica which contains the Chair of Saint Peter and Michelangelo's Pieta, Saint Peter's Square centered around Bernini's Colonnade and obelisk, and the Apostolic Palace housing the Sistine Chapel with its Michelangelo frescoes. It also mentions the Vatican Museums containing the Pinacoteca, Pio-Clementino Museum and Raphael Rooms, as well as gardens, churches, and administrative buildings that make up the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

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    The document lists important landmarks within Vatican City, including Saint Peter's Basilica which contains the Chair of Saint Peter and Michelangelo's Pieta, Saint Peter's Square centered around Bernini's Colonnade and obelisk, and the Apostolic Palace housing the Sistine Chapel with its Michelangelo frescoes. It also mentions the Vatican Museums containing the Pinacoteca, Pio-Clementino Museum and Raphael Rooms, as well as gardens, churches, and administrative buildings that make up the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

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    Vatican City Landmarks

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    Keith Lenard Basuan
    The document lists important landmarks within Vatican City, including Saint Peter's Basilica which contains the Chair of Saint Peter and Michelangelo's Pieta, Saint Peter's Square centered around Bernini's Colonnade and obelisk, and the Apostolic Palace housing the Sistine Chapel with its Michelangelo frescoes. It also mentions the Vatican Museums containing the Pinacoteca, Pio-Clementino Museum and Raphael Rooms, as well as gardens, churches, and administrative buildings that make up the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.

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    LANDMARKS OF THE VATICAN CITY

    SAINT PETER’S BASILICA


    - Vatican Necropolis
    - Chair of Saint Peter
    - Saint Peter’s Baldachin
    - The Pieta
    - Monument to the Royal Stuarts

    SAINT PETER’S SQUARE


    - Vatican Obelisk
    - Bernini’s Colonnade
    - Pope Innocent VIII Fountain
    - Maderno Fountain
    - Bernini Fountain
    - Via della Conciliazione (Road of the Conciliation)
    - Porta San Pellegrino

    APOSTOLIC PALACE
    - Redemptoris Mater Chapel (Mother of the Redeemer Chapel)
    - Borgia Apartments
    1. The Hall of the Mysteries of the Faith
    2. The Hall of the Saints
    3. The Hall of Trivium and of Quadrivium
    4. The Room of the Sibyls
    - Clementine Hall
    - Papal Apartments
    - Cappella Paolina (Pauline Chapel)
    - Raphael Rooms
    1. Sala di Costantino ("Hall of Constantine")
    2. Stanza di Eliodoro ("Room of Heliodorus")
    3. Stanza della Segnatura ("Room of the Signatura")
    4. Stanza dell'Incendio del Borgo ("The Room of the Fire in the Borgo")

    - Niccoline Chapel
    - Sala Regia (Regal Room)
    - Scala Regia (Royal Staircase)
    - Sistine Chapel
    1. The Last Judgment (Altarpiece)
    2. Sistine Chapel Ceiling
    VATICAN MUSEUMS
    - Pinacoteca Vaticana (Art Gallery)
    - Collection of Modern Religious Art
    - Pio-Clementino Museum
    - Chiaramonti Museum
    - Gregoriano Etrusco Museum
    - Gregoriano Egizio Museum
    - Vatican Historical Museum
    - Bramante Staircase
    - The Gallery of Maps

    CASINA PIUS IV
    - Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    - Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
    - Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas

    CHURCH OF SAINT ANNE IN THE VATICAN


    GREGORIAN TOWER / TOWER IN THE WINDS
    DOMUS SANCTAE MARTHAE / SAINT MARTHA’S PALACE

    Vatican Gardens
    - English Garden
    - American Garden
    - French Garden
    - Palace of the Governorate of Vatican City State
    - Italian Garden

    Church of Our Lady of Mercy in the Teutonic Cemetery


    Teutonic Cemetery
    Collegio Teutonico (German College)
    Mater Ecclesiae Monastery ('Mother of the Church' Monastery)
    Church of Saint Giles in Borgo at the Vatican
    Church of Saints Martin and Sebastian of the Swiss
    Paul VI Audience Hall
    Passetto di Borgo
    Church of San Pellegrino in Vaticano (Saint Peregrine in the Vatican)
    Saint John’s Tower (Secretariat for the Economy)
    Saint Stephen of the Abyssinians Church
    Vatican Pharmacy
    Vatican Hill
    Holy See Press Office
    Vatican Apostolic Archive
    Vatican Film Library
    Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State
    Corps of Firefighters of the Vatican City State
    Pontifical Swiss Guard
    Vatican Post
    Institute for the Works of Religion / Vatican Bank
    Vatican Media

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