The Paul VI Audience Hall sits just behind the Palace of the Holy Office and is one of the Vatican’s most unusual venues geographically: part of the building lies inside Vatican City, while most of it is in Rome but treated as an extraterritorial area of the Holy See. It was built on land donated by the Knights of Columbus, and the roof has hosted a major photovoltaic installation since 2008. Behind the papal chair, Pericle Fazzini’s monumental sculpture The Resurrection—commissioned in the Paul
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The Paul VI Audience Hall sits just behind the Palace of the Holy Office and is one of the Vatican’s most unusual venues geographically: part of the building lies inside Vatican City, while most of it is in Rome but treated as an extraterritorial area of the Holy See. It was built on land donated by the Knights of Columbus, and the roof has hosted a major photovoltaic installation since 2008. Behind the papal chair, Pericle Fazzini’s monumental sculpture The Resurrection—commissioned in the Paul
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