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| | Vatican City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | The Vatican City includes the Vatican Hill (mons vaticanus), whose name predates Christianity, and the Vatican Fields north of thehill, upon which St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and theVatican Museums are built. |
 | | The Vatican is technically a rare case of a non-hereditary elective monarchy ; the monarch, the Pope, being elected for life bythose Cardinals under the age of 80 during a Conclave (held in the SistineChapel). |
 | | The Vatican City is situated on the Vatican Hill in the northwestern part of Rome,several hundred metres west of the Tiber river. |
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