Saint Peter’s Basil­i­ca, or San Pietro in Vat­i­cano as it’s also known, was built between 1506 and 1626 on the site of …

One of the most impor­tant Vat­i­can col­lec­tions of ancient inscrip­tions is that of the Jew­ish Lap­i­dar­i­um, which was tra…

The Muse­um was found­ed in 1854 by Pius IX in the Lat­er­an Palace, and was intend­ed to house evi­dence of the Chris­t­ian …

The Gre­go­ri­ano Pro­fano Muse­um was found­ed in the Lat­er­an Apos­tolic Palace at the behest of Gre­go­ry XVI Cap­pel­lari on …

The Lap­idary Gallery, home to the rich­est lap­idary col­lec­tion in the Vat­i­can, occu­pies the south­ern part of the long …

The nucle­us of the pon­tif­i­cal col­lec­tions of clas­si­cal sculp­ture dates back to the orig­i­nal col­lec­tion of pope Julius…

Found­ed on the ini­tia­tive of Pope Gre­go­ry XVI in 1839, the Gre­go­ri­an Egypt­ian Muse­um occu­pies nine rooms, with a broa…

The new Vat­i­can Pina­cote­ca (Art Gallery) was inau­gu­rat­ed on 27 Octo­ber 1932 in the build­ing espe­cial­ly con­struct­ed by…

This archae­o­log­i­cal area is an out­stand­ing exam­ple of an ancient Roman bur­ial ground. The word “necrop­o­lis”, from the…

Saint John’s Tow­er (Ital­ian: Torre San Gio­van­ni) is a round struc­ture locat­ed on a hill­top in the west­ern­most tip of …

The Simon­et­ti Stair­case (also called Snail Stair­case or Momo stair­case) is the Vatican’s well-known and most pho­togra…

Are some of the largest muse­ums in the world with an enor­mous col­lec­tion that varies from ancient Roman and Egypt­ian …