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            Papal Apartments next to St. Peter's Basilica - another shot that I overlooked, which I think I enjoy a bit. The colors and the geometry speak to me in this one, with the sculptures along the bottom being an added bonus.

"The papal apartments is the non-official designation for the collection of apartments, which are private, state, and religious, that wrap around a courtyard (the Courtyard of Sixtus V, Cortile di Sisto V) on two sides of the third (top) floor of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.

Since the 17th century, the papal apartments have been the official residence of the pope in his religious capacity (as supreme pontiff). Prior to 1870, the pope's official residence in his temporal capacity (as sovereign of the Papal States) was the Quirinal Palace, which is now the official residence of the president of the Italian Republic. The papal apartments are referred to in Italian by several terms, including appartamento nobile and appartamento pontificio.

The apartments include about ten rooms including a vestibule, a small studio office for the papal secretary, the pope's private study, the pope's bedroom in the corner of the building, a medical suite (which includes dental equipment and equipment for emergency surgery), a dining room, a small living room, and the kitchen. There is a roof garden and staff quarters for the nuns (German Benedictines) who run the Prefecture of the Pontifical Household (papal household). It is from the window of his small study that the pope greets and blesses pilgrims to Saint Peter's Square on Sundays. The private library has been described as a "vast room with two windows overlooking Saint Peter's Square." The pope's private chapel occupies the top story on the east side of the Cortile di Sisto V. 

The pope usually lives at the papal apartments except for the months of July to September, when the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo is the official summer residence. Three of the last five popes, John XXIII, John Paul I, and John Paul II, died in the papal apartments; the fourth, Paul VI, died at Castel Gandolfo, whilst the fifth, Benedict XVI, resigned and lived at Castel Gandolfo before moving into his new residence within the Vatican.

However, Pope Francis, after his election, declined to stay in the papal apartments in favour of his two-room residence in the Domus Sanctae Marthae. Similarly, he stayed in an apartment instead of the Archbishop's Palace during his tenure as Archbishop of Buenos Aires." (wikipedia)

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