Italy has agreed to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) plot of land north of Rome into a vast solar farm that ...

Leo XIV has brought back the papal tradition of vacationing at Castel Gandolfo. So how did a family castle become part of the ...

The pontiff spent a period of rest July 6–22 in the Italian town of Castel Gandolfo about 15 miles from Rome on the shores of ...

Returning to Rome on Tuesday night after a short stay in nearby town of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV called for an end to ...

Pope Leo XIV has extended his vacation at Castel Gandolfo by two days. How does he relax? And what have other popes done with ...

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...

The arrival of Pope Leo XIV at Castel Gandolfo on July 6, 2025, marked the return of a papal summer retreat after more than a ...

Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

The 69-year-old Chicago native is resuming the papal tradition of leaving the Vatican for the hot summer months in favor of the relatively cooler climes of Castel Gandolfo, overlooking Lake Alban in ...

In the 17th century, it became the favoured summer retreat of the Vatican leaders. Pope Urban VIII built the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo in 1624, and it was enlarged over succeeding pontificates ...

Today, almost three months since the election of Pope Leo XIV, the media reality defies those expectations. Apart from ...

Two months into his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV will leave Rome to spend two weeks on a pontifical estate in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, 18 miles south of the city, and sometimes known as ...