The Vatican is located in the city of Rome and is considered a country within a country. Every country has a border, and it is common sense that there are some procedures to go through when entering and exiting a country, such as checking documents, but the Vatican is a place where you can come and go as you please. When you walk along the river in Rome, you see a huge church dome. When you walk over, you enter the border of the Vatican.
Although the Vatican is only 0.44 square kilometers in size, it is an independent country with all the administrative institutions that a country should have. Of course, the most important thing is that it is the seat of the Catholic Church, so the “citizens” are mainly clergy. The people we see most every day are believers and tourists, and the two are often indistinguishable.
I am a tourist through and through, so first of all I find it interesting to be able to travel in and out of a country so freely. Secondly, go to the Sistine Chapel where the pope was elected to see the ceiling painted by Michelangelo. This great painter reluctantly took over the job assigned by the Pope. He lay under the ceiling of the chapel and worked hard for four years, completing a masterpiece. In his paintings, there are people going to heaven. There were people who were going to hell, so he drew himself among the people who were going to hell to soothe his aura of being reluctant to take on the job. That day we hired a private tour guide, an Italian man. When he saw me running away to take pictures in the middle of his explanation, he joked with my grandma that such people would go to hell. Later, my grandma told me, and I said with a smile. That’s good, you can meet Michael Angelo.
On the outskirts of the Vatican Museums, where tourists gather, there is a restaurant that has received a lot of bad reviews online. The crime is that the knife used by the patrons is too sharp. There is a stall selling snacks there, and he sells a bottle of bottled water for three euros for one euro. It can be seen that the influence of the Holy See spreads all over the world, but it has little effect at home. I thought that when I saw Michael Angelo, I might hang out with such a person. Hehe, I regretted not being honest that day and following the Italian guy’s explanation.
Li Chun’en
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2023-09-08 16:00:00
