We’d just spent 2 weeks traveling through Spain before taking a ridiculously cheap flight from Seville to Pisa for 9 euros ...

The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.

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Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...

Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

During the first hearing in a civil trial over the firing of a couple from their jobs at the Vatican Bank over a ...

Bishops in hardline Sydney and centrist Melbourne want Skrbis gone, and have asked the Vatican to investigate ... from various degrees at the city’s convention centre. On top of their degree ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s Apostolic Library tapped Dior’s creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri, Italian singer Jovanotti and Icelandic illustrator Kristjana S Williams for an ...

Faith describes parts of the city as “calm” compared to a few days ago, yet people are still staying inside for their security. “Everything is paralysed,” she says. However, she adds that displaced ...

Silvia Carlucci, right, and Domenico Fabiani, two employees who were fired by the Vatican Bank in October 2024, after their wedding violated a ban on workplace marriage, get emotional while ...