“Here I find everything: mountains, lakes and I can even see the sea and good people. » These words from Benedict XVI, engraved on a plaque fixed on the facade of the town hall of Castel Gandolfo, summarize the attachment of the popes to their summer residence. Four hundred years after the first papal stays, the village perched above Lake Albano, about thirty kilometers from the Vatican, continues to offer what Rome cannot: freshness, calm and a slower pace.
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