Vatican City?...?

Question

what that's place?....

Answer 1

Vatican City (aka the Holy See) is the smallest independent state in the world, and also the "hub" of the Catholic Church.

Now, the professional response, from Brittanica:

St. Peter, the first pope, is thought to have lived and died in Rome, and the city was an important center of the Roman Catholic faith from the early days of the church. By the 4th century, the church had gained control of a great deal of territory, called the Patrimony of St. Peter, around Rome. Papal influence in central Italy began to increase in the 5th century, as the Roman Empire fell apart and the people of the area began to rely on the pope for protection from invading armies.

In the middle of the 8th century, the Lombards tried to conquer all of Italy. Pope Stephen II appealed for help to the Frankish king Pippin III the Short. Pippin and his army took back land in central Italy from the Lombards and gave it to the church in 754, as the Donation of Pippin. In 756 the church gained more territory from the Lombards and the Papal States were created, with Rome as the capital. The pope ruled over the Papal States, which stretched across most of what is now central Italy, until 1870.

Italy became a unified country in the 19th century, and the church lost its land to the new nation. Some of the papal territories voted to join Italy in 1859. Italy annexed the rest of the Papal States in 1870 and made Rome the Italian capital. To protest the incorporation into a unified Italy, each pope thereafter remained a “voluntary prisoner of the Vatican,” never leaving the small papal grounds. This situation lasted nearly 60 years. Finally, the government of Italy and the papacy signed the Lateran Treaty, on Feb. 11, 1929.

The treaty created Vatican City. It established a territory of 109 acres (44 hectares) on Vatican Hill as an independent state with the pope as absolute sovereign. In doing so it recognized that complete freedom from all secular political authority was vital to the papacy. The treaty guarantees that the boundaries of the Vatican state are fixed and unchangeable.

Outside Vatican City the pope also has jurisdiction over certain areas where the church functions or has historic interests. These extraterritorial areas include the buildings that house the pontifical ministries; certain key historical churches—the basilica of St. John Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore and St. Paul Outside the Walls; the Catacombs; and Castel Gondolfo, the summer residence of the pope since the 17th century, located about 6 miles (10 kilometers) southeast of Rome. Population (2002 estimate), 900.

Answer 2

Vatican City, formally the State of the Vatican City is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. At approximately 44 hectares (108.7 acres), it is the smallest independent nation in the world. See microstates.

It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much larger former Papal States (AD 756 to 1870). Although governed by the Bishop of Rome (the Pope), the Vatican City is officially a monarchy. The highest state functionaries are all clergymen of the Catholic Church. It is the sovereign territory of the Holy See and the location of the Apostolic Palace – the Pope's official residence – and the Roman Curia. Thus, although the principal ecclesiastical seat of the Holy See (the Basilica of St. John Lateran) is located outside of its walls, in Rome, the Vatican City can be said to be the governmental capital of the Catholic Church-.

Answer 3

The Vatican is a sovereign city-state within the city of Rome in Italy and it is considered as the smallest independent nation in the world having an area of around 44 hectares only. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church.


And here's a correction on c=bo's reply:

FYI, Vatican is not the only nation in the world that is completely surrounded by another nation. There's Lesotho in the African continent; it is completely surrounded by South Africa. ;-)

Answer 4

It an independent city-state completely surrounded by Rome (Italy), where the head and the high hierarchy of the Catholic Church reside. It has its own postal service, its own newsservice, banks, etc. and you can enter and leave it freely, (if you are in Rome, obviously. )
Its centre is the St Peter's Basilica, which is the world's biggest church. the Vatican is what is left of the 'Papal States', which comprised a big portion of Italy during the renassaince. The ruler of the Vatican and its ca. 42ha is the Pope.

Answer 5

vatican city is actually its own little nation. it is the only nation that is 100% suronded by another nation (Italy). Vatican City is where the vatican (where the pope lives) is. the city has so much history and other features it is hard to talk about it all right here. When you have time look it up online and learn something new

Answer 6

It is an independent state within the city of Rome which was granted by Italian state to the papal states in 1929. It is of course the head of the Catholic Church.

Answer 7

It's a country inside Rome, Italy. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. it has it's own economy, language and it's own bank.

Answer 8

The capital city of the Catholic church.

Answer 9

The seat of the Catholic Church perhaps?