Gallery of Maps
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Museum in Vatican City
The Gallery of Maps is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
Address: VA, 00120, Vatican City
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The walls of the gallery are covered with forty geographical maps of the various Italian regions, with maps of the main cities. In the ceiling adjacent to each ...
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This was my favourite gallery in the Vatican Museum. The ceiling impressed me like the ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. There are 40 ...