Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016, Pope Francis declared the palace a museum, allowing tourists to explore centuries of papal holidaymaking history.

One of the gardens of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, is seen May 29, 2025, the day Pope Leo XIV made a visit to the villa and the "Borgo Laudato Si'" project, which Pope Francis ...

After the death of late Pope Francis in April, the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace were sealed, as a part of a ritual that symbolises the papal throne is empty and secures his personal papers ...

The quarters in the Apostolic Palace include a chapel, bedroom and bathroom, papal study, office for the pope’s secretary, a living room, dining room, kitchen, and library for meetings. Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Leo XIV moved into his new apartments at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace March 14, the Holy See Press Office announced that afternoon in Rome. Pope Leo's new quarters include several rooms, among ...