1. Vatican City is all grown up.

2. Vatican City: Statues on the roof of St Peter's Basilica are silhouetted under clouds.

3. Safely kept within Vatican City lie some of the world's most valuable treasures: the Gardens, St.

4. Surrounded by the Italian capital Rome, Vatican City packs imposing buildings into its small area.

5. The flag of the Vatican City State is as on your webpage, showing the arms with the silver key in the dexter position.

6. Vatican City is bounded on the southeast by St. Peter's Square.

7. A team of Priests came from the Vatican City , the Pope's own independent territory.

8. The Vatican City is not a survival , although there was a larger Papal State.

9. Vatican City was ranked most stable, followed by Sweden, Luxembourg and Monaco.

10. Vatican City is the world's smallest fully independent nation - state.

11. Hull are the Vatican City and the guys in charge thinks they are God.

12. Vatican City has a temperate Mediterranean climate, mild rainy winters, and hot, dry summers.

13. No tour of Rome is complete without a visit to the Vatican/the Vatican city.

14. The Pope exercises supreme legislative, executive , and judicial powerthethe State of the Vatican City.

15. Twenty - four hours later, he had almost lost his life inside Vatican City.

16. In October 2009, the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State produced a CD with a selection of musical works by Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

17. The Papal State, extinct since 1870, was revived as the State of Vatican City, as a result of the Lateran Treaty.

18. Benedict, together with the visiting Armenian Apostolic Church Catholicos Aram I, joined hundreds of people gathered in the Paul VI Hall, inside Vatican City, for the ceremony.

19. Bells rang out during the Holy Eucharistic, with chimes that could be heard inside the church as well as throughout Vatican City.

20. College of Cardinals , the Church's highest - ranking clergy, meets in Vatican City to elect new cardinals.

21. In contemporary usage it refers to the Pontifical Swiss Guard of Vatican City .

22. In 1929, Lateran Treaties established the independent state of Vatican City.

23. No government would have much interest in relations with so tiny a state as Vatican City.