Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

Tourists to Vatican are being shut out of the Sistine Chapel for the foreseeable future after the death of Pope Francis, ...

It also was using signal jammers around the Sistine Chapel and the Domus Santa Marta ... According to tradition, Peter traveled to Rome to spread the Christian message and was martyred there ...

The plume of dark smoke indicates that the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside the chapel have not reached the required ...

This secretive conclave to elect the next pope is being held in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. What's it like inside and how ...

The black smoke confirmed the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside had not reached the required two-thirds majority — at ...

The 133 red-robed cardinals made a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday to begin a first ...

In Rome, crowds have gathered at St Peter's Square, their eyes fixed on the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. They are eagerly awaiting the appointment of a new pope, hoping for white smoke to signal ...

Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning ... “I hope that when I return to Rome this evening, I’ll find the white smoke already rising.” The voting cardinals began ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...