Attractions encompass the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums, making this city-state so immense (and notoriously crowded) that guided Vatican tours are highly recommended.

Vatican City generates revenue through museum admissions and the sale of coins, stamps, and publications. The Vatican Bank has been at the center of numerous financial scandals, which has prompted ...

Giorgio Capriotti is one of the Vatican Museums’ art restorers who meticulously worked on these details on the massive canopy. Capriotti said that despite more than a century since the last ...

This type of restoration... is the expression of what we want the Vatican Museums to be,' says museum director Barbara Jatta VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Museums unveiled on Tuesday, October 15 ...

Financially supported by the 2021 Art Conservation Project of Bank of America and various chapters of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, among other organizations, the restoration ...

R ome is known as “La Città Eterna” or “Eternal City,” and with all of the history and culture just overflowing from the city ...

including from the popular Vatican Museums, has often been used to plug deficits in the Holy See's budget. REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.

The Vatican Museums unveiled on Tuesday a restoration of one of the crown jewels of their collection, a 2nd century marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo that has inspired generations of ...

The Apollo Belvedere is displayed at the Pio-Clementine Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (photo: Julia Cassell/EWTN News / EWTN) The Vatican Museums this week unveiled one of its most celebrated ...