page_title: Culture of Vatican City
section_title: Cuisine
hierarchical_section_title: Culture of Vatican City / Cuisine
caption_attribution_description: Spaghetti alla carbonara
context_page_description: 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 Latin lexicon of recent neologisms, the Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis.
  The permanent population of the Vatican City is predominantly male, although two communities of nuns live in the Vatican. A minority are senior Catholic clergy, some are members of institutes of consecrated life, and the Swiss Guards make up an important segment. Many workers in Vatican City and embassy personnel accredited to the Holy See live outside its walls.
  Tourism and pilgrimages are an important factor in the daily life in the Vatican.
context_section_description: The Vatican is a ministate, with only one restaurant and the food there is very similar to Italian cuisine, especially Roman cuisine.  Workers in the Vatican provide many customers to restaurants in the rest of Rome. 
  "Eggplant with Parmesan of the Swiss Guards", a mixture containing eggplant, parmesan and spices, is supposedly one distinctive dish.
caption: Pasta is popular in the Vatican[citation needed]
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