VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

Castel Gandolfo is preparing to welcome Pope Leo XIV on July 6. The imposing papal villa in this town on the shores of Lake ...

Speaking to anti-drug campaigners at the Apostolic Palace, the pope issued a sharp rebuke of drug policy that targets the ...

Pope Leo XIV will spend two weeks of July at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, bringing back a centuries-old ...

Among the many historic buildings and magnificent residences in Vatican City, not everyone knows exactly where Pope Leo XIV resides. The home of the Pope in Rome is the place the Holy Father chose ...

The papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace in 2007. Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori via Getty Images In 1903, Pope Pius X became the first pontiff to live in the apartments.

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 Apostolic Palace, or the Vatican Palace, is not open to the public. However, there are areas that tourists can explore. Visitors can directly see Michelangelo's fresco paintings in the Sistine ...

Pope Leo XIV is expected to move into the official papal residence, an apartment on the top floor of the Apostolic Palace, departing from the living arrangements used by Pope Francis for 12 years.

The papal apartments occupy the top floor of the palace, a 16th century building that overlooks St. Peter's Square. They feature about 10 rooms, including a bedroom, private library and study ...

Leo will transfer to the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, from July 6-20 “for a period of rest” and again for ...