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Attractions of the Vatican City

Attractions of the Vatican City

According to ethnicityology, the Vatican is a huge architectural complex, which contains various unique monuments. Entering the Vatican, tourists first of all get to St. Peter’s Square, which is rightfully considered one of the best architectural monuments in the world. A huge area measuring 340 by 240 meters began to be built in the seventeenth century, and according to the plan of D.L. Bernini, the famous architect and creator of the project, it was supposed to personify a sacred place…

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Papacy

Papacy

Since the 12th century, the popes systematically expanded the papal institutions as the highest administrative authorities (Roman Curia) and highest ecclesiastical judicial authority (Inquisition). The papacy of the 12th and 13th centuries is characterized by the fight against the heretical movements in the West (Cathars, Waldensians) and the crusades with the aim of recapturing territories lost to Islam (especially in Palestine), but especially by its conflicts with the Staufer Friedrich I in the 12th century and Friedrich II. However, after…

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