Museum
Padiglione delle carrozze
Padiglione delle Carrozze, known in Italian as Museo Storico delle Carrozze, preserves a distinctive thread of papal history through its storied fleet of coaches. This pavilion in Vatican City houses the historical collection of papal carriages and coaches used by the Popes, offering a tangible record of ceremonial transport that accompanied the centuries of Papal States and Vatican governance. The exhibits trace the evolution of papal conveyance from earlier Baroque splendor to the more restrained forms of later periods, illustrating how craft, iconography, and state ritual intertwined with travel. …
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