Each year, about seven million tourists come to Rome, most of them to visit the Vatican.<\/p>\n
It's an impressive place built over 150 years by the great artists of its time, over the remains of an ancient basilica that covered the tomb of St. Peter.<\/p>\n
It's also a place of many unknown details. However, helping to reveal these unknown details, the director of Rome Reports has written a book entitled \u201cThe Vatican as you have never been told before.\u201d <\/p>\n
JAVIER MART\u00cdNEZ-BROCAL<\/strong> The book offers a tour of St. Peter's Square and Basilica, helping people discover the meaning and anecdotes of things like the obelisk, the dome, Michelangelo's Piet\u00e0 or the bronze statue of St. Peter.<\/p>\n JAVIER MART\u00cdNEZ-BROCAL<\/strong> \u201cThe Vatican, as you have never been told before\u201d shows the most exciting and human side of St. Peter's Basilica. It will make readers see Rome in a completely different way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 4, 2018. \u201cThe Vatican, as you have never been told before\u201d explains how and why the Basilica and St. Peter's Square were constructed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nKToqnhAVbA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrojavieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/blibrojaviint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAuthor, \u201cThe Vatican as you have never been told before\u201d
\n\u201cWhen I go to the Vatican I see tourists and even pilgrims impacted by the beauty of the place. What happens is that I have the feeling that they're unable to interpret them. The Vatican is not a palace, not a museum, it's a church, it's the center of Christianity. Everything inside the Basilica of St. Peter has a meaning. Making this book has been like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and understanding its meaning. What I have found has been very interesting.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\nAuthor, \u201cThe Vatican, as you have never been told before\u201d
\n\u201cWhen I accompany people to St. Peter, what I like most is telling them stories about what happened there. For example, I would tell them here on this stone is where the pope crowned Carlo Magno, here in this chapel is where people plundered the Vatican converting it into a stable and disguised a soldier's crucifix while laughing at it; or this is where John Paul II was shot. It's a living church with a very strong history.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n