The pontiff will stay on the hilltop Vatican property “for a period of rest” from the afternoon of July 6 to the afternoon of July 20.

Pope Leo XIV will take a summer break outside Rome, in Castel Gandolfo where locals and faithful anxiously await his arrival. Leo will transfer to the papal retreat of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome,

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving the town a bit bereft.