Pope’s summer residence Castel Gandolfo opens to the public

Pope Francis has given permission for the private apartments of the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo, the summer residence of popes for 400 years, to open to the public as a museum for the first time. The incumbent pope, who shunned the papal apartments at the Vatican for more modest quarters when he took office in 2013, has never stayed the night at the 17th-century lakeside palace 20km southeast of Rome. Tourists and pilgrims may now enter rooms previously reserved for the pope and his inn