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 apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century before Pope Francis eschewed those living quarters for a suite in the Vatican’s guesthouse, the Casa Santa Marta.
Besides the papal apartment, the Apostolic Palace — also sometimes called the Palace of Sixtus V for the pope who had most of it built — contains Vatican offices, the Vatican library, and some of the rooms now part of the Vatican Museums.
Timmy Walsh The poet Lord Byron engraved his name while in quarantine on Manoel Island in 1811.
Joseph Gatt "In the 19th century, Malta boasted the most powerful batteries in the world" (Dr Giovanni Bonello).
Joseph Gatt Thank you for sharing, Mary Jo. A very interesting historical article about the Maltese diaspora.
