Vatican City Map - Gizi

Vatican City

Map Scale: 1:2,250

Delivery: Please allow 5 to 10 days (UK)

The Vatican and the adjoining districts of Rome with Castel SantAngelo on a detailed, informative and beautifully presented street plan from Gizi Map with additional plans of Saint Peters, the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, the grotto with papal tombs, etc.

The street plan is drawn at 1:2,250 with exceptional clarity and attention to detail not often found on present day maps, and covers the whole of the Vatican City, extending along both banks of the Tiber beyond Castel SantAngelo to Piazza Cavour. Streets with bus services show both line numbers and stops. The plan also shows locations of hotels indicating their star rating. Both within the Vatican and in the rest of the plan individual important buildings and churches are named.

The plan also names various sections of St Peters and Vaticans famous museums, indicating locations of several important treasures, the Pietá, the School of Athens, etc. Further information is provided on three separate panels showing in great detail the interior of the basilica, the ceiling and the walls of the Sistine Chapel, plus the grottoes with papal tombs and the necropolis below.

Names of buildings, churches, etc, are given in both Italian and English (even if in some cases the translations may be unnecessary or quirky). Names of popes, panels in Michelangelos ceiling, etc, are in English. Multilingual map legend is in English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Polish and Hungarian.

Romes historic centre within the citys old walls is shown on a separate street plan at 1:30,000 indicating the seven hills, locations of the ancient sites, important churches and other buildings, metro lines and stations, etc. An additional panel on the map cover shows a road map of the environs of Rome, including both international airports and access to the Popes summer residence in Castel Gandolfo.

A beautiful, thoughtfully designed map not just for visitors to Rome but also for anyone who is interested in art or history, or simply needs to be persuaded that digitalisation has not ruined cartographic skills in map publishing.