Vatican Guest House to Become a Hotel — Pope Needs to Save Money
Four-star rooms will be made in the 15th-century building.
Vatican. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org
The Vatican's guest house building will become a hotel. It has been leased to a private management company for approximately five million euros per year. According to the newspaper Il Messaggero, the company will turn it into a four-star hotel, writes Bild.
The 15th-century building, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI in the early seventies, began to be used as accommodation for bishops, priests, and cardinals visiting the Vatican.
The main reason for converting the guest house into a hotel was economic considerations, reports the Swiss newspaper Blick. The restoration of the dilapidated building would have required, according to its data, 60 million euros. Several cardinals appealed to the new Pope Leo XIV with a request to abandon the idea of a hotel. But he remained unyielding: there is no alternative.
The late Pope Francis, on the other hand, repeatedly condemned monastic orders during his pontificate that converted their real estate not into social housing, but turned it into hotels and guesthouses.
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