Raphael Rooms
The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms in the Apostolic Palace, now part of the Vatican Museums, in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop.- Type: Museum
- Description: suite of reception rooms in the Palace of the Vatican painted by Raphael and his workshop between 1509 and 1524
- Also known as: “Stanze di Raffaello”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica.
Sistine Chapel
Church
Photo: Snowdog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.
St. Peter’s Basilica
Church
Photo: Rabax63, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica, is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter’s Basilica is situated 140 metres southwest of Raphael Rooms.
St. Peter’s Square
Square
Photo: Giannisk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Peter's Square is a large plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood of Borgo. St. Peter’s Square is situated 160 metres southeast of Raphael Rooms.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Rome and North Rome.
Old Rome
Capitoline Hill
Locality
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill, between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome. The hill was earlier known as Mons Saturnius, dedicated to the god Saturn. Capitoline Hill is situated 2½ km southeast of Raphael Rooms.
Raphael Rooms
- Categories: cycle of frescoes, building component, group, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Vatican, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.9033° or 41° 54′ 12″ northLongitude
12.45454° or 12° 27′ 16″ eastOpen location code
8FHJWF33+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 10774102107OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q249449
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Raphael Rooms” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرف رافائيل”
- Arabic: “غرف رافاييل”
- Belarusian: “Станцы Рафаэля”
- Bulgarian: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Bulgarian: “Рафаелови стаи”
- Bulgarian: “Стаи на Рафаело”
- Bulgarian: “Стаите на Рафаело”
- Bulgarian: “Станца дела Сегнатура”
- Catalan: “Estances de Rafael”
- Catalan: “Sales de Rafael”
- Chinese: “拉斐尔客房”
- Chinese: “拉斐尔房间”
- Chinese: “拉斐尔画室”
- Chinese: “拉斐爾客房”
- Chinese: “拉斐爾房間”
- Croatian: “Rafaelove sobe”
- Czech: “Raffaelovy sály”
- Danish: “Raphaels rum”
- Dutch: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Dutch: “Stanze Vaticane”
- Esperanto: “Rafaelaj Ĉambroj”
- French: “Chambres de Raphaël”
- Georgian: “რაფაელის ოთახები”
- German: “Stanzen des Raffael”
- German: “Stanzen des Raphael”
- Greek: “Αίθουσες του Ραφαήλ”
- Hebrew: “חדרי רפאל”
- Indonesian: “Ruangan Rafael”
- Indonesian: “Ruangan Raphael”
- Italian: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Italian: “Stanze Vaticane”
- Japanese: “ラファエロの間”
- Korean: “라파엘로의 방”
- Latvian: “Rafaēla stancas”
- Lithuanian: “Rafaelio kambariai”
- Lithuanian: “Rafaelio stancos”
- Lithuanian: “Sala di Costantino”
- Lithuanian: “Stancos Vatikane”
- Lithuanian: “Stanza dell’Incendio bi Borgo”
- Lithuanian: “Stanza della Segnatura”
- Lithuanian: “Stanza di Eliodoro”
- Lithuanian: “Vatikano stancos”
- Macedonian: “Рафаелови одаи”
- Macedonian: “Рафаелови соби”
- Maltese: “Il-Kmamar ta‘ Raffaello”
- Maltese: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cambras de Rafaèl”
- Persian: “اتاقهای رافائل”
- Polish: “Stanza della Segnatura”
- Polish: “Stanze Watykańskie”
- Polish: “Stanze”
- Portuguese: “Salas de Rafael”
- Russian: “Комнаты Рафаэля”
- Russian: “Станцы Рафаэля”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rafaelove sobe”
- Slovak: “Raffaelove siene”
- Slovenian: “Rafaelove stance”
- Slovenian: “Raffaellove stance”
- Spanish: “Estancias de Rafael”
- Spanish: “Estancias del Vaticano”
- Spanish: “Estancias Vaticanas”
- Spanish: “Habitaciones de Rafael”
- Spanish: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Swedish: “Rafaels rum”
- Swedish: “Rafaels stanzer”
- Swedish: “Sala di Costantino”
- Swedish: “Stanza dell’incendio del Borgo”
- Swedish: “Stanza della Segnatura”
- Swedish: “Stanza di Eliodoro”
- Swedish: “Stanzas”
- Swedish: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Swedish: “Stanzerna”
- Thai: “Raphael Rooms”
- Thai: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Thai: “ห้องราฟาเอล”
- Turkish: “Raffaello Odaları”
- Ukrainian: “Станце Рафаеля”
- Ukrainian: “Станці Рафаеля”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy phòng Raffaello”
- Welsh: “Stanze di Raffaello”
- Western Armenian: “Ռաֆայէլի դպրոցներ”
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Highlights include Cortile della Sentinella and Cortile Borgia.
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