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Cortile della Pigna

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#22 of 47 things to do in Vatican City
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Cortile della Pigna, Vatican City, Italy
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Beautiful courtyard, great place to spend an hour having an al fresco meal.
This is the best place to relax mid day during your Vatican visit. There's a relatively new cafe on the cortile that offers drinks and food.... spend some time decompressing on the courtyard. So much better than the self service places inside the museum.
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Date of experience: November 2019
Breakfast at Pine Cone courtyard
I booked tickets for vatican museum entrance and also had a reservation to have breakfast at Pine Cone courtyard. This reservation is not early entrance, you also need to wait till 8:00 to enter into the museum. The continental breakfast was okay, but the experience was…
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Date of experience: June 2019
This is actually the upper terrace where the giant Pine cone is placed
The separated upper terrace is called the Cortile della Pigna after the Pigna, a large bronze pine cone. This bronze pine cone is from the 1st century AD and may have been from Hadrian's tomb. When we were there in March we could not get onto the terrace so we could just view…
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Date of experience: March 2019
Interesting History
A number of reviews seem to poke fun at this unusually large pinecone located in St. Peter’s Square. I decided to find out more about this interesting sculpture. Where is what I discovered. . . It was created by Publius Cincius Slavius. It was created in the 1st century AD…
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Date of experience: May 2019
Catered Special Dinner in this interior courtyard
We felt very fortunate to have a wonderful buffet dinner literally in the middle of the Vatican after a private tour of a part of the museum.
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Date of experience: May 2019
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