Eventually the Apostolic Camera seized the property from the Savelli family due to financial issues, and in 1604 Castel ...

Almost 13 years have passed since a pope spent part of his summer at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo, a hilltop town ...

Pope Leo XIV says he chose the name in honor of Leo XIII, connecting his predecessor’s focus on workers during the industrial revolution to today’s rise of AI.

Here is a list of the last non-cardinals to be elected as pope of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Urban IV — 1261-1264 Pope Gregory X — 1271-1276 Pope Celestine V — 1294-1294 ...

Urban was so enamored of his digs at Castel Gandalfo that shortly after vacationing there for the first time in 1626, he invited his secretary of state to get out of Rome and join him with a Latin ...

Pope Urban VIII built the palace in 1624 to give popes an escape from the sweltering Roman summer. It was enlarged over succeeding pontificates to its present size of 55 hectares (136 acres), bigger ...

Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week vacation, giving the ...

The intimidated cardinals obliged. But many cardinals regretted picking the bad-tempered Pope Urban VI and appointed a rival French antipope, Clement VII, who returned to Avignon.

That was certainly the view of Pope Urban VIII, who had the old medieval fortress renovated as a summer palace 400 years ago. Urban, I confess, is kind of a fave of mine.