- Several paintings by Caravaggio including the majestic Entombment
- Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Saint Jerome
- Works by painters Fra Angelico, Giotto, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin and Titian
- The red marble papal throne, formerly in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano
- Roman sculpture, tombstones, and inscriptions, including the Early Christian Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus and Dogmatic sarcophagus, and the epitaph of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
- The Raphael Rooms
- The Niccoline Chapel
- The Sistine Chapel
- The Gallery of Maps: topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar Ignazio Danti of Perugia
- The frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment built for Pope Alexander VI …

SPQR, the motto of the city of Rome, is an initialism (Latin dictionaries classify it as a formula) from a Latin phrase, Senatus Populusque Romanus (”The Senate and the People of Rome”), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used as an official signature of the government. It appears on many of the Rome’s civic buildings, public fountains, and manhole covers.

Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela

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In the the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City, in Rome, you can admire the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, on the chapel ceiling.

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