The New Pope’s Bling: A £ 500,000 Ring, Priceless Cliffftop Retreat, luxury Vatican apartments and bulletproof PausMobile that is donated to Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV will soon be served with the invaluable Regalia and the vast estate that is supplied with the papacy, including gold jewelry, a bullet -free popemobile and lush papal apartments.

Former bishop Robert Francis Prevost’s new life in the Vatican will be far removed from his upbringing in a city in the suburbs in IllinoisAs well as his time work as a missionary with poor farmers in the Peru countryside.

The first American pope will be inaugurated next week during a grandiose mass, in which he will receive the pallium, a church robe in the Catholic Church.

The fisherman’s ring, perhaps the most symbolic piece of jewelry that is worn by a pope, will then be placed on his finger.

The ring, registered with its papal name and an image of St. Peter who has just shed, has reportedly an estimated value of $ 520,000 – although its value is immeasurable to the Catholic Church.

Another invaluable piece of jewelry that is worn by popes is their chest cross – each of which is specific to individual pontiffs.

While he greeted the believers after his election on Thursday, Leo XIV wore a cross with a removable coverage containing the bones of saints, given him through his religious order, the Augustinians, when he became a cardinal in 2023.

The cross contains fragments of the bones of three important saints for the order, namely St Augustine, his mother St. Monica and the 16th-century archbishop St. Thomas van Villanova.

During his presentation as Pope, Leo XIV wore a cross with a removable coverage that contains the bones of saints

The ring of Pope Benedict XVI, seen in 2013. The ring of Pope Leo XIV still has to be revealed

The palace of Castel Gandolfo, a 135-hectare complex of buildings 25 km outside of Rome, is set in the Alban hills with a panoramic view of Lake Albano

The apostolic palace has long been the official home of the pope, until Pope Francis chose to move to the Guesthouse Casa Santa Maria

A fully electric PopEmobile was built last year by Mercedes for Pope Francis, the costs of which were estimated to be $ 500,000

Catholic liturgical jewelry is seen in the Gammarelli Tailor Shop, papal tailors since the years 1700, on 24 April 2025 in Rome

In the meantime, the elegant red and gold that he was wearing when he was presented on 8 May, graceful illustrations of the four gospels in the New Testament – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Unlike the gilded grandeur of the Vatican, Leo’s predecessor Pope FRancis Was known for his modest ways, which started when he joined the Jesuit order in the 1950s and made a vow of poverty.

His chosen clothing indicated a step back to tradition, experts said, in contrast to the all -white clothing of Pope Francis during his introduction of 2013 who indicated a desire for simplicity.

The deceased Pope, who died last month at the age of 88, tried their best to maintain this throughout his life, even after he was installed in the Vatican.

Instead of moving into the luxurious papal apartments in Rome’s apostolic palace, the pope chose to move to the Guesthouse Casa Santa Maria and to live as economically as possible.

‘At the time of the conclave I lived in room 207. This room where we are now was a guest room. I chose to live here, in Room 201, because when I took possession of the papal apartment, I clearly heard a ‘no’ in myself, Francis said in an interview in 2013.

Alexander VII gallery during an example of the opening of the public of the papal apartment in the apostolic palace of Castel Gandolfo

The Pope’s bedroom in Palace Castel Gandolfo, famous because in 1944 it was given during the Second World War to the women in Labor Hidden Ther by Pope Pius XII

A view of the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, which were opened to the public by Pope Francis

An image of Paus Franciscus’s apartment in Santa Marta Residence in the Vatican. The late pope chose not to move to the lush papal apartments in the apostolic palace

An image of Paus Franciscus apartment in Santa Marta Residence in the Vatican

With this Everyman image, Francis also converted the papal summer residence Castel Gandolfo into a museum, in which the decadent retreat was enjoyed by many of his predecessors.

Pope Leo, known as a advocate for the poor, has indicated that he will continue Francis’s legacy and even be called a ‘second Francis’.

However, it remains unclear where he will live during his papacy, and whether he will change Francis’s decision to turn the papal retreat into a museum and to use the apartments in the beautiful Cliffide Castle.

“It is a decision that is permanent until the Pontiff wants it to stay as such,” Dr. Sandro Barbaglio, a curator in the Vatican Museum, in 2016.

“This means that a future pope can decide to take the house back, making it private again.”

Pope Leo XIV Concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican the day after his election as 267th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church

Every pope has put his own stamp on the papal homes.

The palace of Castel Gandolfo, a 135 -hectare complex of buildings 25 km outside of Rome, is set in the hills of Alban with a panoramic view of Lake Albano.

The vast palace is complete with a swimming pool, installed by Pope John Paul II.

The Polish pope regularly used the palace and its facilities and raised eyebrows when he was photographed by Paparazzi in his swimsuit at the swimming pool.

In the meantime, Pope Benedict has set up an organic farm that is home to cows, chickens and bees from the free rein.

In addition to his living areas that he chooses, the method of transport that the new Pope selects will undoubtedly be investigated.

The Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano (R) puts the fisherman’s ring, made from gilded silver, on a finger of Pope Francis during his grandiose inauguration Mis on 19 March 2013 in the Vatican in the Vatican

When a new pope is inaugurated, the donation of the ring symbolizes the duty that is transferred to him as one of Peter’s successors and leader of the church

An avid environmental activist, Pope Franciscus opted for a fully electric popemobile built by Mercedes, the costs of which were estimated to be $ 500,000.

Francis’s personal was rarely as lush as official vehicles, and he was often seen in a Ford Focus of the second generation and a Renault 4GTL from 1984.

Over the years, popes have used all kinds of vehicles, with Paus Paul VI traveling in a Continental in Lincoln in 1965 for a visit to New York City.

The type of car Leo XIV will choose to see traveling – but with Francis’s modified electric G -wagon that was only built for him last year, it is probably a different area of ​​continuity for the new pope.