Pope Liu XIV revives the traditions of holidays for centuries, bringing hope in a tourist boom to Castle Gandolfo

Pope Liu XIV will revive a tradition of more than 400 years old on Sunday when he heads outside the Vatican city for a summer vacation in Castel Gandolfo. Pontef resorted to the summer heat in the town of Lexide, about an hour south of Rome for centuries, but the late Pope Francis abandoned tradition in 12 years in the Vatican.

Liu’s visit on the horizon raised hopes for increasing new support for tourism in the small city. There will be from July 6 to July 20, according to an article published last month The official news port for the Vatican.

As the first Pope to visit the village on the beaches of Lake Albano – a home of only about 8,900 people – more than a decade ago, Liu has the mayor of Castel Gandolfo and business owners in the hope of following other tourists, and perhaps until they try to overlap to take a look at Pontif.

Pope Francis, from He died in AprilAvoid many decorations and splendor that the papacy could move, and decided to spend the summer at its modest residence in the Vatican instead of adventure in Gandolfo.

While there,, Pope Leo, born in Chicago It will remain in a flat building owned by the Vatican-Wesyle in the traditional papal housing in the town, the Apostolic Palace of the Gandolfo Castle.

“Pope Liu gave us a great gift,” Stefano Karusi, the owner of a local cafe, told Reuters. “The Pope was always important here … because it attracts people.”

The mayor of Castle Gandolfo Alberto de Angeles Reuters told Reuters that the locals were scattered on the papal visit.

“The presence of the popes in Castel Gandolfo always means a lot of activity, and a lot of economic growth,” he said.

Liu is likely to remain out of public opinion for most of his visit, behind the walls of the papal housing, but it is scheduled to appear on July 13 and 20, to attend the city’s religious celebrations.

The Popes spent a vacation in Castel Gandolfo for years in the summer, as they benefited from a height of 1400 feet from the lake to search for cooler parts of Rome, as the European heat wave in early summer has already pushed temperatures to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Liu will not remain in the papal palace, which was obtained, along with his gardens decorated in the Renaissance style, by the Vatican in 1596 as a debt batch of an aristocratic family. Pope Francis turned the palace into a museum through the papacy, and opened his gardens for tourists. The museum will remain open while visiting Liu.

While Francis is not left in Castle Gandolfo, residents say his decision to open the palace as a public museum has benefited from society.

The mosaic studio owner in the town of Lixid, Marina Rossi, said that tourists are now repeatedly, instead of coming only during the summer to see the Pope.

“It was more tourism, because there is the audience and then leave,” she told Reuters. “Now there is a fixed flow of tourism throughout the year.”

Rossi said that the return of the Catholic leader to the city would give Castle Gandolfo an opportunity to draw more tourists.

“It is an important moment,” she said. “I will not hide my happiness.”