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Interesting Vatican City Facts: The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with the smallest population. It measures 44 hectares, and the population of the place is approximately 932. growth rate of population is approximately 1.15% The Vatican has its own Post office and issues its own stamps. The Vatican mail system is…

Fountain of the Arts Along the Road of Via Margutta there lies the small "Fontana delle Arti", with a triangular base, crowned by a bucket of paint-brushes (in relation to the presence of artists prevailing in the area dating from 17th century). Carved in 1927, in marble, according to the project of architect Pietro Lombardi, who…

Fontana del Babuino – Babuino Fountain Address – Via del Babuino, 49, 00187 Roma, Italy Il Babuino "The Baboon" is one of the talking statues of Rome, The fountain is situated beside the Chiesa di S. Atanasio dei Greci, in via del Babuino The statue is an ancient depiction of a reclining Silenus: the drunken…

Catacombs are underground burials, evidence of 534 brief tomb inscriptions from the Jewish catacombs, the large underground burial places outside Rome. (The catacombs are not open to the public. Copies of some of the inscriptions can be seen in the stairhouse of the modern synagogue at the Lungotevere dei Cenci; a few originals in Oxford's Ashmolean…

The building was constructed in 980 and became the first synagogue in Rome in 1073 founded by lexicographer Nathan ben Jechiel. The building is in the Trastevere area the original Jewish quarter before the Jews were forced to move to the Ghetto. The building also housed a Mikvah. On the base of the central column…

San Pietro In Vincoli Cripta (St. Peter in Chains) Maccabees Hanna and Her seven Sons Story dated to About 160b.c 1st August Their story is told in II Mach. 7, the seven brothers were given the name of Maccabees, the only book talking about it. The Mach II. is a summary of the story, written…

The Great Synagogue of Rome the largest synagogue in Rome. Today, a diverse community of 15,000 Jews lives in Rome, At least 13 synagogues can be found in Rome, including a special synagogue for the Libyan Jews who immigrated to Rome after the Six-Day War in 1967. Three of thirteen synagogues are located under the…