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|alt = 360-degree view from the dome of [[St. Peter's Basilica]], looking over the Vatican's [[Saint Peter's Square]] (centre) and out into Rome, showing Vatican City in all directions.
|caption = <center>360-degree view from the dome of [[St. Peter's Basilica]], looking over the Vatican's [[Saint Peter's Square]] (centre) and out into Rome, showing Vatican City in all directions.</center>
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== Culture ==
{{Main article|Culture of Vatican City}}
{{See also|Music of Vatican City}}
[[File:Museums in the Vatican City.jpg|thumb|The [[Vatican Museums]] (''Musei Vaticani'') display works from the extensive collection of the Catholic Church.]]
Vatican City is home to some of the most famous art in the world. [[St. Peter's Basilica]], whose successive architects include [[Bramante]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Giacomo della Porta]], [[Carlo Maderno|Maderno]] and [[Bernini]], is a renowned work of [[Renaissance architecture]]. The [[Sistine Chapel]] is famous for its frescos, which include works by [[Perugino]], [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] and [[Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli]] as well as the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling|ceiling]] and [[Last Judgment]] by [[Michelangelo]]. Artists who decorated the interiors of the Vatican include [[Raphael]] and [[Fra Angelico]].
The [[Vatican Library|Vatican Apostolic Library]] and the collections of the [[Vatican Museums]] are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance. In 1984, the Vatican was added by [[UNESCO]] to the List of [[World Heritage Site]]s; it is the only one to consist of an entire state.<ref name="UNESCO">{{cite web|url=http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 |title=Vatican City – UNESCO World Heritage Centre |publisher=UNESCO |accessdate=10 October 2009}}</ref> Furthermore, it is the only site to date registered with the UNESCO as a ''centre containing monuments'' in the "International Register of Cultural Property under Special Protection" according to the 1954 [[Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict]].<ref name="UNESCO"/>
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|File:Michelangelo's Pietà Saint Peter's Basilica Vatican City.jpg|Michelangelo's ''[[Pietà (Michelangelo)|Pietà]]'', in the Basilica, is one of the Vatican's best known artworks.
|File:Lightmatter Sistine Chapel ceiling.jpg|Michelangelo's [[fresco]]s on the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling]], "an artistic vision without precedent".<ref>{{cite book|last=König|first=Gabriele Bartz, Eberhard|title=Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475–1564|year=1998|publisher=Könemann|location=Cologne|isbn=3-8290-0253-X|edition=English}}</ref>
|File:The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library (2994335291).jpg|The elaborately decorated Sistine Hall in the [[Vatican Library]].
|File:Vatican Museums 2011 6.jpg|Main courtyard of the [[Vatican Museums]]
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