Usually, popes live in the papal apartments at the Apostolic Palace. Pope Leo may buck tradition like Pope Francis. Photos ...

The hotel shares its name with the street it’s on, Via di Ripetta, an artery that leads off Piazza del Popolo, a dramatic ...

It’s also where the term conclave comes from — “under lock and key,” because the cardinals who were meeting in Viterbo, north of Rome, took so long the town’s frustrated citizens locked them in the ...

More and more hotels, in Rome and ... of place. Rooms are unsurprising, but of decent dimensions; most are sunny thanks to large windows, and a few have small balconies. The building dates to ...

More and more hotels, in Rome and everywhere ... demonstrate a real pride of place. Rooms are unsurprising, but of decent ...

Such is the eternal, municipal nightmare of city-building games ... but also long for the gleaming marble of Ancient Rome, this is well worth a try. It begins as you might expect.