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Travel Guides & Info :

• Map of Vatican City - Small map showing positions of St.Peter's Basilica and the Museums.
• Map of Vatican City - Political map, 1975. (167K)
• The Holy See - Official Vatican homepage. Presents news services, information on the history of the Catholic Church and departments of the Roman Curia, as well as Church documents and virtual tours of the Vatican museums.
• BBC News - Country Profile: Vatican - Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.
• CIA - The World Factbook: Holy See (Vatican City) - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
• UK Foreign Office - Country Profiles: Holy See - Overview of country's geography, history, politics, economy, international relations, travel and current affairs.

• US Department of State - The Holy See - Country portal offers a map and links to Background Notes, the US embassy and the current ambassador, press releases, fact sheets, annual Human Rights Reports and other major reports including Industry Market Reports.

• US Library of Congress - Portals to the World: Holy See - Annotated directory of selected online resources.

• Vatican - Links to Vatican's institutions and country guides.

• Vatican City - Flags and general information.
• The Holy Father - From Leo XIII to John Paul II.
• Musei Vaticani - The Vatican Museums - Contain high definition images and virtual visits for Sistine Chapel, Raphaels Rooms, Pinacoteca, Egyptian Museum, Etruscan Museum and Ethnological Missionary Museum in 5 languages.

• Vatican Library and Secret Archives - Collections and documents. Online Public Access Catalog of the Vatican Library.

• Vatican Library Exhibit : The City Reborn - US Library of Congress exhibit presenting the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps. Presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance.

• Vatican Observatory - Ancient astronomical research institution. Includes history, profiles of personnel, details of telescopes, and a streaming video on the relation of science and religion.

• CIA - Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Holy See (Vatican City) - List of government officials and their titles, updated weekly. Also includes the head of the central bank, ambassadors to the United States and Permanent Representatives to the UN, New York.

• Cultural Policies in Europe: Holy See - Data, facts, trends and summaries of current debates on cultural policy developments in the Vatican (Holy See). Includes an overview of its organization and decision-making process.

• The Roman Curia - About the Secretariat of State, Congregations, Tribunals, Pontifical Coucils, Synod of Bishops, Offices, Pontifical Commissions, Swiss Guard, Institutions Connected with the Holy See, Labour Office of the Apostolic See, and Pontifical Academies.

• US Law Library of Congress - Holy See (Vatican City) - Annotated compendium of online sources providing access to primary documents, legal commentary and general government information about specific jurisdictions and topics.

• World Legal Information Institute - Holy See - Catalog and search facilities for over 500 databases from 55 countries including case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials.

• The List of Popes - In chronological order. Links to a biographical essay on each pontiff up through Pope St. Pius X (d. 1914), from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

• Papal Encyclicals Online - Archive of encyclicals and other papal documents. Fairly complete from Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) to the present; some documents from earlier popes, as far back as Honorius III in 1227.

• Popes of the Roman Catholic Church - A table from The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., in chronological order. Some entries linked to biographical articles.

• Popes Through the Ages - By Joseph Brusher. Papal lineage table, and brief accounts of the pontificates of every bishop of Rome from St. Peter the Apostle to the present.

 Nl.

• Paus Johannes-Paulus I - Het leven van Albino Luciani die als Paus Johannes Paulus I slechts 33 dagen aan het hoofd stond van de Katholieke Kerk.
• Reizen en Landen - Heilige Stoel - Landenoverzicht, opgesteld door het Nederlandse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. Algemene gegevens en informatie over de betrekkingen met Nederland.
• Vaticaanstad - Overzicht van feitelijke informatie over deze kleine stadsstaat.

 Fr.

• Musées du Vatican - Visite virtuelle, fiches des oeuvres, informations pratiques.
• L'Osservatore romano - Edition hebdomadaire du quotidien catholique du Saint-Siège.
• Radio Vatican - La radio officielle du Saint Siège offre une analyse chrétienne de l'actualité. Possibilité d'écouter les émissions en direct.

 De. 

• Der Heilige Stuhl - Die offizielle Präsenz des Vatikan bietet sehr ausführliche Informationen über die Römische Kurie, Museen, den Staat der Vatikanstadt, Archive und aktuelle Geschehnisse.
• Radio Vatikan - Neben dem Programm und den Frequenzen des päpstlichen Senders finden sich auch Nachrichten und aktuelle Themen über die Kirche und den Vatikan.

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