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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Vatican City' has mentioned 'Rome' in the following places:
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Holy See's independent city state, an enclave within Rome, Italy | WIKI |
Vatican City (/xcbx88vxc3xa6txc9xaakxc9x99n/ (listen)), officially the Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Cittxc3xa0 del Vaticano;[e] Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae),[f][g] is the Holy See's independent city state, an enclave within Rome, Italy. | WIKI |
After the Avignon Papacy (1309xe2x80x931437),[17] the popes have mainly resided at the Apostolic Palace within what is now Vatican City, although at times residing instead in the Quirinal Palace in Rome or elsewhere. | WIKI |
The name "Vatican" was already in use in the time of the Roman Republic for the Ager Vaticanus, a marshy area on the west bank of the Tiber across from the city of Rome, located between the Janiculum, the Vatican Hill and Monte Mario, down to the Aventine Hill and up to the confluence of the Cremera creek. | WIKI |
Because of its vicinity to their arch-fiend, the Etruscan city of Veii (another naming for the Ager Vaticanus was Ripa Veientana or Ripa Etrusca) and for being subjected to the floods of the Tiber, the Romans considered this originally uninhabited part of Rome insalubrious and ominous. | WIKI |
[25] Tacitus wrote, that in AD 69, the Year of the Four Emperors, when the northern army that brought Vitellius to power arrived in Rome, "a large proportion camped in the unhealthy districts of the Vatican, which resulted in many deaths among the common soldiery; and the Tiber being close by, the inability of the Gauls and Germans to bear the heat and the consequent greed with which they drank from the stream weakened their bodies, which were already an easy prey to disease". | WIKI |
[29] This area became the site of martyrdom of many Christians after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64. | WIKI |
Popes gradually came to have a secular role as governors of regions near Rome. | WIKI |
The Lateran Palace, on the opposite side of Rome, was their habitual residence for about a thousand years. | WIKI |
On their return to Rome they chose to live at the Vatican. | WIKI |
In 1870, the Pope's holdings were left in an uncertain situation when Rome itself was annexed by the Piedmont-led forces which had united the rest of Italy, after a nominal resistance by the papal forces. | WIKI |
But the Popes did not recognise the Italian king's right to rule in Rome, and they refused to leave the Vatican compound until the dispute was resolved in 1929; Pope Pius IX (1846xe2x80x931878), the last ruler of the Papal States, was referred to as a "prisoner in the Vatican". | WIKI |
Although German troops occupied the city of Rome after the September 1943 Armistice of Cassibile, and the Allies from 1944, they respected Vatican City as neutral territory. | WIKI |
[37] One of the main diplomatic priorities of the bishop of Rome was to prevent the bombing of the city; so sensitive was the pontiff that he protested even the British air dropping of pamphlets over Rome, claiming that the few landing within the city-state violated the Vatican's neutrality. | WIKI |
[38] The British policy, as expressed in the minutes of a Cabinet meeting, was: "that we should on no account molest the Vatican City, but that our action as regards the rest of Rome would depend upon how far the Italian government observed the rules of war". | WIKI |
After the US entered into the war, the US opposed such a bombing, fearful of offending Catholic members of its military forces, but said that "they could not stop the British from bombing Rome if the British so decided". | WIKI |
The US military even exempted Catholic pilots and crew from air raids on Rome and other Church holdings, unless voluntarily agreed upon. | WIKI |
Notably, with the exception of Rome, and presumably the possibility of the Vatican, no Catholic US pilot or air crew refused a mission within German-held Italy. | WIKI |
The British uncompromisingly said "they would bomb Rome whenever the needs of the war demanded". | WIKI |
[39] In December 1942, the UK's envoy suggested to the Holy See that Rome be declared an "open city", a suggestion that the Holy See took more seriously than was probably meant by the UK, who did not want Rome to be an open city, but Mussolini rejected the suggestion when the Holy See put it to him. | WIKI |
In connection with the Allied invasion of Sicily, 500 US aircraft bombed Rome on 19 July 1943, aiming particularly at the railway hub. | WIKI |
[40] On the following day, the new government declared Rome an open city, after consulting the Holy See on the wording of the declaration, but the UK had decided that they would never recognize Rome as an open city. | WIKI |
The name "Vatican" was already in use in the time of the Roman Republic for the Ager Vaticanus, a marshy area on the west bank of the Tiber across from the city of Rome, located between the Janiculum, the Vatican Hill and Monte Mario, down to the Aventine Hill and up to the confluence of the Cremera creek. | WIKI |
[46][47] These properties, scattered all over Rome and Italy, house essential offices and institutions necessary to the character and mission of the Holy See. | WIKI |
Vatican City's climate is the same as Rome's: a temperate, Mediterranean climate Csa with mild, rainy winters from October to mid-May and hot, dry summers from May to September. | WIKI |
Foreign embassies to the Holy See are located in the city of Rome; only during the Second World War were the staff of some embassies accredited to the Holy See given what hospitality was possible within the narrow confines of Vatican Cityxe2x80x94embassies such as that of the United Kingdom while Rome was held by the Axis Powers and Germany's when the Allies controlled Rome. | WIKI |
[j] The incomes and living standards of lay workers are comparable to those of counterparts who work in the city of Rome. | WIKI |
As of 2019, Vatican City had a total population of 825, including 453 residents (regardless of citizenship) and 372 Vatican citizens residing elsewhere (diplomats of the Holy See to other countries and cardinals residing in Rome). | WIKI |
360-degree view from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, looking over the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square (centre) and out into Rome, showing Vatican City in all directions | WIKI |
Vatican City is one of the few independent countries without an airport, and is served by the airports that serve the city of Rome, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport and to a lesser extent Ciampino Airport. | WIKI |
There is a standard gauge railway, mainly used to transport freight, connected to Italy's network at Rome's Saint Peter's station by an 852-metre-long (932xc2xa0yd) spur, 300 metres (330xc2xa0yd) of which is within Vatican territory. | WIKI |
[109] The city's postal service is sometimes said to be "the best in the world",[110] and faster than the postal service in Rome. | WIKI |
The independent State, defined by the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929, extends its territorial sovereignty over an area of 44xc2xa0ha in the centre of Rome: Vatican City enclosed by its walls and open toward the city through Berninixe2x80x99s colonnade of Saint Peterxe2x80x99s. | UNESCO |