Popes

The Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. So far there have been 265 of them (since the first century AD). P.S.: we're not going to include all sites ever visited by a pope - just those that are strongly linked to one or all of them

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Popes':

  • Avignon From 1309 to 1377, the pope resided not in Rome but in Avignon (Palais des Papes)
  • Pienza Was named after and redesigned by Pope Pius II (Pope between 19 August 1458 - 15 August 1464)
  • Rome Rome with Holy See's exterritorial rights
  • Vatican City The Holy See has been the residence of popes since early Christian times