Discover the pope's summer getaway, an Italian hillside town called a 'Mediterranean Paradise' with beautiful gardens and a ...

Pope Leo XIV is on vacation at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, a 135-acre estate featuring multiple ...

The Apostolic Palace is not a single building, but a complex consisting of about 1,000 rooms, including: • The Papal Apartments, now partly uninhabited (Pope Francis chose to live in the more ...

The papal apartments themselves occupy the third (top) floor of the Apostolic Palace, wrapping around the Courtyard of Sixtus V (Cortile di Sisto V). The suite includes a chapel, multiple offices ...

The remains of what appears to be a medieval palace where popes lived before they made the Vatican their home have been excavated in Rome prior to renovations for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, or ...

The cardinals were first locked in Viterbo’s papal palace with a key, giving birth to the term conclave, which comes from the Latin words “cum” (with) and “clavem” (key).

Visitors walk by a papal faldstool bearing the coat of arms of Pope Pius IX, 1846-1878, in the Papal Palace in Castel Gandolfo, some 30 kilometers southeast of Rome, Saturday, May 29, 2021.

The Papal Residences Through the Ages According to Britannica, the Pope's residence was initially in the Lateran Palace, Rome, from the 4th century to the early 14th century. Due to a major fire and ...

The renowned Sistine Chapel is a chapel within the Apostolic Palace, which is the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Although, it was not always known by that name.

A view of St. Lorenzo square taken from the "Loggia dei Papi" of the Palace of the Popes that hosted the longest conclave in the Catholic Church's history, in Viterbo, Italy, Friday, May 2, 2025 ...