Vatican City is a holy place, home to the pope and the center of Christianity. Very few live in Vatican City, but millions ...

Despite the country's diminutive dimensions, the country welcomes a whopping two million visitors per year - close to 20 ...

Competitors participated in ­various events, including a 100-metre dash, half-mile run, weightlifting, rowing, shooting, ...

the world. Access to the Italian rail network is over a viaduct to Roma San Pietro railway station, and is guaranteed by the Lateran Treaty dating from ...

Vatican during the Savoyard era describes the relation of the Vatican to Italy, after 1870, which marked the end of the Papal States, and 1929, when the papacy regained autonomy in the Lateran Treaty, ...

The world is home to an array of nations that come with their distinguished characteristics and this also applies to the ...

In 1626, St Peter’s basilica, the largest church in the world, was built. In 1925, the Lateran Treaty was signed between Pope Pius X and Benito Mussolini declaring Vatican City as an Independent state ...

It wasn’t always the independent state we know today. Vatican City gained sovereignty in 1929 through the Lateran Treaty, signed between the Holy See (the central governing body of the Catholic ...