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

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

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 ...

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54 cardinals participated in the conclave which saw Cardinal Maffeo Barberini elected as Pope Urban VIII. Historians have since claimed that in a strange coincidence, ...

Urban and nephews. Have done more harm. Than Vandals and Goths. To my pretty Rome. O Pope Tax. Referring to the bees that symbolized the Barberini clan, another pasquinade attacked the pope for ...

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.

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 consecrated St. Peter's Basilica, when the convalescing Pope Francis ...

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.