The Venerable English College in Rome is opening its doors to the public for the first time in its history in the Jubilee year.
The guided tours take place every Saturday and allow visitors to admire seven hundred years of the history of an extraordinary complex that has been a hospice for pilgrims, the seat of a confraternity, a noble palace, a barracks for French soldiers during the Napoleonic occupation of Rome and, since 1579, a seminary, a role it still plays today.
The Venerable English College, the oldest British institution outside the United Kingdom, has hosted cardinals, monarchs, politicians and intellectuals throughout its history, including Thomas Cromwell and John Milton.
