Microstates In Italy - Vatican City - Day 1 🇻🇦 🇮🇹
A weekend in between a work visit to Spain gave me the chance to explore 2 microstates in neighboring Italy. My flight from Barcelona to Rome was early in the morning. It wasn’t too long. I had booked a shuttle from the airport to Vatican City. The bus dropped me off a couple of blocks away. There was some festival or event there that day, and there were devotees in huge numbers walking towards St. Peter’s Square. Regular tourists like me were able to reach St. Peter’s Square but could not go towards Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel directly. ...