VATICAN CITY [HD] HD

Video and photos in HD I have made during my trip to the Vatican City in 2010. The video includes the following highlights: Rome (Italy), Saint Peter’s Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro), Saint Peter’s Square (Piazza San Pietro), Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina), Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani), famous paintings and sculptures, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo, spiral Staircase, the Raphael Rooms, Gregorian Egyptian Museum, Vatican Historical Museum and the Portraits of the Popes, Papal Throne, Gallery of Maps, Sala Rotonda, Gallery of the Statues, Pinacoteca Vaticana. As always thank you for watching and for your great comments! Roberto from Switzerland (founder of the Swiss Travel Channel) If you enjoyed the video, why not subscribe and/or like the video? ;) Thank you for your support! More videos to come! Link to my channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/SwissTravelChannel SwissTravelChannel is a YouTube channel of my holiday’s trips videos, taken all around the world since 2008. Some are for pure tourism and others are more of an adventure. The videos usually show the top best tourist attractions, the top things to do and top places to see. The goal is to inspire others on their next vacations. The videos can also be seen as a guide to have an idea of the main highlights and places to explore. I love to take pictures of the nature, traditions and different cultures, to search the must-see spots and show the essentials in my videos, for this reason I always try to create the perfect vacation. Traveling is more than a hobby for me, is a way of life. Photocamera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T99 Editing program: Magix Movie Edit Soundtracks: 1. Varoius soundtracks from the movie “Gladiator” (2000) VATICAN CITY (source Wikipedia): Vatican City, officially Vatican City State or State of Vatican City (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano), is an independent state located within the city of Rome. With an area of 44 hectares (110 acres), and a population of about 1,000, it is the smallest state in the world by both area and population. However, formally it is not sovereign, with sovereignty being held by the Holy See. It is an ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state (a type of theocracy) ruled by the Bishop of Rome – the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergy of various national origins. Since the return of the popes from Avignon in 1377, they have generally resided at the Apostolic Palace within what is now Vatican City, although at times residing instead in the Quirinal Palace in Rome or elsewhere. Vatican City is distinct from the Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes), which dates back to early Christianity and is the main episcopal see of 1.2 billion Latin and Eastern Catholic adherents around the globe. The independent city-state, on the other hand, came into existence in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty between the Holy See and Italy, which spoke of it as a new creation, not as a vestige of the much larger Papal Stat