Tourists to the
Vatican will be able to take a train to locations formerly
closed to the public, including the Vatican's Apostolic Palace
and papal villas outside of Rome, thanks to an agreement
announced Friday between the Vatican Museums and Italy's state
railway carrier F.S. Italiane.
The train service will take visitors from the historic
Vatican Station to inside the Papal States and on towards Castel
Gandolfo and Albano Laziale outside of Rome, where papal villas
are located.
"The pontifical villas, for a century inaccessible secret
summer papal residences, will be open to the public and arriving
by train, the most 'of the people' and democratic mode of
transport," said Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican
Museums.
"As an art historian, I think of the visitors' amazement
when they see the splendor of these villas," Paolucci said.
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