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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. The Holy See Vatican City is itself of great cultural significance. Buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel are home to some of the most famous art in the world, which includes works by artists such as Botticelli Bernini and Michelangelo . The Vatican Library and the collections of the Vatican Museums are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance. In 1984, the Vatican was added by UNESCO to the List of World Heritage Sites ; it is the only one to consist of an entire country. The Vatican can be said to be the de facto custodian of the Latin language through its Latinitas Foundation . An important product of this foundation is the regular edition of the Latin lexicon of recent neologisms, the Lexicon recentis Latinitatis The permanent population of the Vatican City is predominately male, although two orders of nuns live in the Vatican. A minority are senior Catholic | |
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