Municipio di Castel Gandolfo

Our hotel was very close to the terminus by train We arrived 40 minutes by train from Gandolf to the lake.

I want to report that on November 27, 2017 Mr. Becchetti Roberto, going to the Demographic Services of the Municipality of Castel Gandolfo, was unable to register the birth of his son born in the hospital in Rome, being told by the manager that THE DECLARATION OF BIRTH WAS TO BE MADE IN THE HOSPITAL AND NOT IN THE MUNICIPALITY. So the citizen was unable to obtain on sight, as his right, the birth certificate from his town of residence !!!! Please want to properly instruct the staff !!!!!!!

In Castel Gandolfo village everything is beautiful, everything !! ?

The last scene - The historic center of Castel Gandolfo, thanks to the authoritative embrace of the vast papal villas, has always been the most gracefully unitary village of all the Castelli Romani. And the center of the center is, by nature, the square. This welcomed the local community and the suburbs, due to the calls of the municipal house, the parish collegiate church, the pharmacy, the post office, the bar ... But today, having become peripheral to the development of the territory and the needs and age of the inhabitants, it is the least animated in the district. Strange coincidence that its decline has almost coincided with the imposition on the square (and on the course) of a decorative restructuring, carried out - in the late 90s - according to seventeenth-century styles that the designer in charge had been practicing for some time with the confidence of a historian baroque architecture. Removed the short perimeter sidewalks and uprooted the modest frame of privet, the old native pavement was ousted. All to introduce new and foreign flints, and frame them with shrill Vatican travertines. Historicistic exercise suggested by the Berninian presence of church and fountain. But, since the Popes have returned to keep their distance from their summer home and confessional tourism has been reduced to small sculptures, this rhetoric flooring appears all the more unnecessarily celebratory. The square and Bernini remain wrong. And under the post-baroque carpet, there is more than a shovelful of dust hidden. On the threshold of the Municipality, in fact, the mouth of a snow pit had come to light during construction. But, in the absence of adequate solutions, it was buried in the oblivion of the pavement. Again: almost in the center of the square, the fountain is pressed by travertine bands with such a tight rigidity as to be inconsistent with the reinvented Baroque. On the ground, its base, which follows the shape of the multi-lobed basin, conflicted with the geometries of the new floor graphics. So it has been simplistically denied and also in view. The history of this village does not stop at the 1600s. What other real treasures could be hidden under this "fake" carpet?

The ten-euro ticket is a bit expensive and the atmosphere is small and small.

The town hall of Castel Gandolfo.