{"id":1308,"date":"2025-11-19T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trask.co\/wordpress\/?page_id=1308"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:42:24","slug":"castel-gandolfo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trask.co\/wordpress\/castel-gandolfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Castel Gandolfo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Castel Gandolfo is commonly known as the Pope’s City, as it houses the Pope’s summer residence. It is a holiday resort located at the top of Lake Albano and is frequented by tourists from all over the world who appreciate the location, the panorama, the exquisite hospitality and the refined beauty.<\/p>\n

The first pope to spend his holidays in the palace was Urban VIII, in May 1626. Archival documents state that he left Rome as some blank cannon fired at his departure. It was he who decided that the pope\u2019s holidays should be spent “at the castle” and made the Palace itself “Apostolic”.<\/p>\n

Built around the year 1000 by the Gandolfi family, in 1200 it was sold to Cardinal Giacomo Savelli who in 1285 ascended to the throne of Peter choosing the name of Honorius IV. In 1500 the Apostolic Chamber expropriated the entire building from the Savellis due to their huge debts. Since then, apart from the period from the end of the Papal State (1870) to the signing of the Lateran Pacts (1929), it has been owned by the Vatican.<\/p>\n

After 1929, Pius XI carried out important consolidation and renovation works on the Palace to adapt it to new needs and to establish connections between the three parks on the premises: the Giardino del Moro, Villa Cybo and Villa Barberini. In 1934, the pope also transferred the Vatican Astronomical Observatory, entrusted to the astronomers of the Jesuit Order, from Vatican City to Castel Gandolfo, as the city and its surroundings lacked the darkness of the night sky necessary for celestial observations and study. From here, in 1932, Guglielmo Marconi made the first live radiotelephone connection with microwave technology from the observatory to Vatican City.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Borgo Laudato Si\u2019 includes 55 hectares of extraterritorial area, divided into 35 hectares of magnificent gardens and 20 hectares of agricultural and farming land, greenhouses and service buildings that the Borgo is committed to preserving and developing with loving care, by also adding to the investment on education the essential commitment to foster the culture of care (cfr. Message for the LV World Day of Peace<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Regarding the gardens area, the Borgo is entrusted with their preservation, maintenance, care, and at the same time development, by also applying new techniques and technological innovations to better protect the wealth of the place and preserve its integrity for future generations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

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