What is the secret door in the Vatican?

Holy Door by Vico Consorti at the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry during its construction The Holy Door by Vico Consorti, cast by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence, is the northernmost entrance of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It is cemented shut and only opened for Jubilee Years.



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The Vatican City does not shut down after a certain time, or lock visitors out, so you are free to walk around the square at any time. However, it is worth noting that all the Vatican museums and St. Peter's Basilica will not be accessible after nightfall, and you may be disappointed by this.

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These historic walls still exist along most of the boundary of Vatican City today. But the 110-acre city-state is far from being an impenetrable fortress. Anyone can stroll into St. Peter's Square, where a white line painted on the ground is the only boundary.

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Architects feared they might disturb the foundations on which rests the world's largest church. But the workmen, with careful hands, pushed forward finally to the area where, according to a basic tenet of the Catholic Church, the bones of St. Peter were buried about A.D. 66.

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Pope Gregory was driven by a passion for learning. He ordered that all Egyptian and “Egyptianized” artifacts in the Pontifical states (and Roman antique markets, private villa collections etc.) be gathered together in a new museum.

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