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2000s: The election of a new Pope is always full of intrigue…some of it deadly
Conclave
What you need to know before your trail
The Pope is dead.
Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.
They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals.
Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.
Travel Guide
The Vatican City
This is a tour of the intricacies and the corridors of power in Vatican City. Conclave:
Sitting inside the very place where the stage is set for religious politics to play out. The cardinals must vote for a new pope but the voting is tense and the stakes are high. Conclave is a unique and unusual practice – The winning candidate so to speak has to have a two-thirds majority to become pope and they have as many rounds of voting as it takes to get that result. Throughout the entire process, they are all sequestered from the world – completely so that they have no communication with anyone from the outside world. No messages are passed in or out. No one from the outside can enter until the doors are released from the inside.
The Sistine Chapel is famous for its artwork as well as being the place where the cardinals lock themselves in when voting for the new Pope. Stunning and historically brilliant are words that don’t do it justice.
Castel Sant’Angelo – Circular, 2nd-century castle housing furniture & paintings collections in Renaissance apartments.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Conclave
Author/Guide Robert Harris Destination: Vatican City Departure Time: 2000s
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