• The papal apartments are referred to in Italian by several terms, including appartamento nobile and appartamento pontificio.[1].
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  • The Papal Apartments are customarily renovated with each new pope, designed according to the preferences of the new pontiff.
  • You will find richly decorated rooms with frescoes, tapestries, and ornate furnishings inside the Papal Apartments.
  • Unlike other areas of Castel Sant’Angelo, the rooms of the Papal Apartments can also be visited to a large extent without the accompaniment of an official guide.
  • The Vatican's Papal Apartments are amazing spaces, those of Julius II and Leo X frescoed by Raphael, and those of Alexander VI frescoed by Pinturicchio.
  • Step back in time within the Papal Apartments. Explore 500 years of history as you wander through the Pope's private sanctuary.
  • In the 1930s, rooms connected to the Papal chambers included some small apartments which were created for members of the papal household.
  • One of the château’s most important apartments after the sovereigns’ apartments, the papal apartment was created in 1804 by connecting two adjoining...