But not at the Castle of Brecon Hotel. Although the hotel has just gone under a whopping £3 million refurbishment and screams luxury, you won't feel out of place. Instead it feels homely, cosy, ...

A new one will be forged when the next pope is elected. The gates of Castel Gandolfo, the pope’s summer home, were closed following the death of Paul VI. We are having trouble retrieving the ...

(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Pope Francis traveled to Castel Gandolfo in Italy to meet with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI — which marked the first time a sitting pope met with ...

He wore clunky orthopedic shoes and reportedly chose not to use the papal summer retreat at Castel Gandolfo southeast of Rome. While popes since the 1800s have been transported in a range of ...

After Benedict retired and Francis replaced him in 2013, the new pope spurned Castel Gandolfo and impressed the international media with his down-to-earth demeanor and thrifty trimmings.

Popes general live in the apartments for ten months of the year and spends July and August in the Castel Gandolfo residence outside of Rome, according to Vatican Tips. Pope Francis was the first ...

The group will start in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and walk the 70 miles to Rome. The hope was to get an audience with the pope at the end, but now, Patterson said they will have to go with the flow.

“We are brothers.” — Francis, upon meeting Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI for the first time after the election, at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, March 23, 2013. “Who am I to ...

He would not use Castel Gandolfo, the traditional papal summer residence overlooking Lake Albano in the cool, breezy hills just beyond Rome. He would, as he would say three days after his election ...