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=== Cultural heritage ===
{{See also|Architecture of Vatican City|Vatican Museums}}
[[File:Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano September 2015-1a.jpg|thumb|[[St. Peter's Basilica]] is one of the most renowned works of Renaissance architecture.<ref name="w583">{{Cite web |date=20 July 1998 |title=History, Architects, Relics, Art, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saint-Peters-Basilica |access-date=18 August 2024 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref>]]

The Vatican City is home to some of the most famous art in the world. [[St. Peter's Basilica|St Peter's Basilica]], designed by a succession of architects including [[Bramante]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Giacomo della Porta]], [[Carlo Maderno]] and [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], is a renowned work of [[Renaissance architecture]]. The [[Sistine Chapel]] is famous for its frescos, which include works by [[Perugino]], [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] and [[Sandro Botticelli]], as well as the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling|ceiling]] and [[Last Judgment]] by Michelangelo. The interiors of the Vatican were decorated by artists including [[Raphael]] and [[Fra Angelico]].

The [[Vatican Apostolic Library]] and the collections of the [[Vatican Museums]] are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=6 January 2020 |title=The Vatican Library Goes Online and Digitizes Tens of Thousands of Manuscripts, Books, Coins, and More |url=https://www.openculture.com/2020/01/the-vatican-library-goes-online-and-digitizes-tens-of-thousands-of-manuscripts-books-coins-and-more.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422174241/https://www.openculture.com/2020/01/the-vatican-library-goes-online-and-digitizes-tens-of-thousands-of-manuscripts-books-coins-and-more.html |archive-date=22 April 2022 |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=Open Culture}}</ref> Added by [[UNESCO]] to the List of [[World Heritage Site]]s in 1984, the Vatican is the only site to consist of an entire state.<ref name="UNESCO">{{Cite web |title=Vatican City – UNESCO World Heritage Centre |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225203638/http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286/ |archive-date=25 December 2017 |access-date=10 October 2009 |website=[[whc.unesco.org]] |publisher=UNESCO}}</ref> It is the only UNESCO site registered as a ''centre containing monuments'' in the "International Register of Cultural Property under Special Protection" according to the 1954 [[Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict]].<ref name="UNESCO" />