Vatican

Liberland awaits: who will be the first tourist?

Taking advantage of a small (only Monaco and the Vatican are smaller) piece of Europe that is apparently unclaimed by either of its neighbors, Croatia and Serbia, a Czech politician named  Vít Jedlička has proclaimed the Republic of…

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Vatican’s Big Tourist Attraction: A New Pope

Apparently Pope Francis’s popularity is fueling a tourist boom at the Vatican; almost 3 times as many tourists in his first 9-1/2 months as in all of the previous year, according to the online business journal Quartz. MORE

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La Dolce Vita (Part 3) The Vatican’s Treasures

(Mural of Pope John Paul II, St. Peter’s Square, The Vatican) When visiting the Vatican you leave Italy and enter another country, albeit a very small (110 acre) country with only a few hundred permanent residents.  Yet the Vatican…

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