Pantheon, Rome
Christina had asked for a simple burial in the Pantheon, Rome, but the pope insisted on her being displayed on a "lit de parade" for four days in the Riario Palace. She was embalmed, covered with white brocade, a silver mask, a gilt crown and scepter. "The Queen wore a thin mantle, decorated with hundreds of crowns and fur bordered with ermine, under this a splendid garment in two pieces, thin gloves and drawers of knitted silk and a pair of elegant textile bootees". In similar fashion to the popes, her body was placed in three coffins – one of cypress, one of lead and finally one made of oak. The funeral procession on 2 May led from Santa Maria in Vallicella to St. Peter's Basilica, where she was buried within the Grotte Vaticane – one of only three women ever given this honour (the other two being Matilda of Tuscany and Maria Clementina Sobieska). Her intestines were placed in a high urn.