Vatican opens train service for Castel Gandolfo tours
September 14, 2015
The Vatican has inaugurated train service to Castel Gandolfo, to serve visitors touring the papal residence there.
Pope Francis, who has chosen not to take a vacation at the summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, decided last year that the apostolic palace should be opened to visitors. Tours of the gardens and the portrait gallery can now be booked along with rail passage to and from Vatican City.
The regular Saturday trains will be modern vehicles. But to inaugurate the service, the Italian rail service Ferrovia dell Stato—which is cooperating with the Vatican in a joint venture—brought out coal-burning trains from its historic collection.
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