All 6 Uses of
Vatican City
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Twenty-four hours later, he had almost lost his life inside Vatican City.†
Chpt 1 *
- On that night, months ago, as the Fiat had left the airport, Aringarosa was surprised to find himself heading not toward Vatican City but rather eastward up a sinuous mountain road.†
Chpt 33-34
- Allegedly, it was also the place in which the Pope's highest officers held private meetings… those meetings they preferred not to hold within the walls of Vatican City.†
Chpt 33-34
- The silhouette of the man in the middle was immediately recognizable—the obese Secretariat Vaticana, overlord of all legal matters within Vatican City.†
Chpt 41-42
- Opus Dei is a personal prelature of Vatican City, and His Holiness can disperse monies however he sees fit.†
Chpt 41-42
- When it came to containing gossip, no walls in the world were as porous as those surrounding Vatican City.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(Vatican City) independent nation/city within the city of Rome; the residence of the Pope and the administrative center of the Roman Catholic Church; smallest independent country by population and size (110 acres)