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From a Black Limo With a Silken Armchair to a Bulletproof 'Sardine Can,' the Vatican Looks Back at the Evolution of the Popemobile

A new exhibition at the Vatican Museums highlights a century of collaboration with Mercedes-Benz, showcasing eight papal vehicles that developed from a "means of transportation into an instrument of encounter," per Pope Leo XIV

Oct 29, 08:58 PM

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