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Hi, Tammy —
I'd like to clarify a couple of things
first. The Vatican State is indeed
a sovereign country, but it doesn't
have an airport and it is land locked.
To get to the Vatican or to mail
anything to the Vatican, you need
to go through Italy, or at the very
least, you have to use Italian air
space and land in the Vatican using
a helicopter. Either that or you
could parachute in, but I wouldn't
jump from higher than 5,000 feet
or you might land in the Tiber River,
the Gianicolo Gardens, or Piazza Venezia!
That said, it's probably not a bad
idea to include Italy on the label,
because the mail is going to have
to be processed at Leonardo Da Vinci
Airport ("Fiumicino" to the natives),
several miles west of Rome, and then
sent to the Vatican.
You said:
I'd even be willing
to clean toilets there, if it meant
I could live and work in the Eternal
City!
The Eternal City is Rome, not the
Vatican. Rome is the sovereign capital
of the Italian Republic, unified in
the name of His Royal Majesty Victor
Emanuel I of the House of Savoy in
1870, as a result of a brilliant
military strategy employed by Giuseppe
Garibaldi, whose statue can be found in the Gianicolo Gardens which lay
just east—northeast of the
St. Peter's Basilica.
John
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