{"id":4400,"date":"2026-01-16T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:54:44","slug":"vatican-city-the-spiritual-heart-of-catholicism-and-a-treasure-house-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/vatican-city-the-spiritual-heart-of-catholicism-and-a-treasure-house-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican City \u2013 The Spiritual Heart of Catholicism and a Treasure House of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"586\">Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world, entirely enclosed within the city of Rome, Italy. Covering an area of approximately 44 hectares, it holds immense religious, cultural, and historical influence as the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church and the residence of the Pope..<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"586\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vatican1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"586\"><em>Photo: Unsplash\/Jae Park<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"943\">The history of Vatican City is deeply intertwined with the development of Christianity. According to tradition, Saint Peter, one of Jesus Christ\u2019s twelve apostles, was martyred and buried at this site. Built over his tomb, St. Peter\u2019s Basilica stands as one of the largest and most sacred religious buildings in the world.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"943\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vatican2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1282\" height=\"1920\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"588\" data-end=\"943\"><em>Photo: Pexels\/Arthousestudio<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1350\">Vatican City is renowned for its unparalleled artistic and architectural heritage, accumulated over centuries. The Vatican Museums house thousands of priceless works, including masterpieces by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. Among them, the Sistine Chapel, with its iconic ceiling and the Last Judgment fresco by Michelangelo, represents the pinnacle of Renaissance art.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1350\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13405 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/vatican3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"1350\"><em>Photo: VnExpress<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3077\" data-end=\"3384\">Beyond its religious role, Vatican City has played a vital part in the history of human civilization, particularly in preserving Western knowledge, art, and intellectual traditions through the ages. Its ceremonies, libraries, and archives illustrate the close relationship between faith, power, and culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"3386\" data-end=\"3690\">In 1984, Vatican City was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the first state in the world to have its entire territory recognized as a World Heritage Site. Today, Vatican City remains both a sacred place of pilgrimage and one of humanity\u2019s most important cultural and artistic centers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"1967\"><strong>NTT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world, entirely enclosed within the city of Rome, Italy. Covering an area of approximately 44 hectares, it holds immense religious, cultural, and historical influence as the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church and the residence of the Pope.. Photo: Unsplash\/Jae Park The history of Vatican &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-heritages","category-world-heritages-of-unesco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}