Gianni Crea is the ‘clavigero’ – or key keeper – of the Vatican Museums. Beginning at 5:30 every morning, he and his assistants traverse the dark and quiet halls of the Vatican, opening the more than 300 doors in the “Museums of the Pope.”
Keeper of the keys
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