What is the origin of the name 'Vatican City?'
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(from wikipedia.com)The Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum. In the 1st century A.D., the Vatican Hill featured the circus of Nero and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over the cemetery, the traditional site of St. Peter the Apostle's grave. Even before the arrival of Christianity, it is supposed that this originally uninhabited part of Rome (the ager vaticanus) had long been considered sacred, or at least not available for habitation. The area was also the site of worship to the Phrygian goddess Cybele and her consort Attis during Roman times. (see www.wikipedia.com)
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