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Viterbo, Italy – 29 April 2025
1. Wide of Viterbo’s city centre
2. Various of Palace of the Popes
3. Tilt up from the bottom to the top of the Viterbo’s cathedral door, depicting the cardinals who participated in the conclave of 1270
4. Wide of the room where the cardinals were locked in the conclave of 1270
5. Close of a tile depicting Gregorio X, the pope elected after the 1270 conclave
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elena Cangiano, Popes’ Palace archaeologist:
“Because Pope Clemente IV died in 1268 but for all of 1269 nobody was elected. What did they decide to do? Viterbo’s municipality decides to lock the cardinals inside the Palace of the Popes. This is the first time that something similar happened, that cardinals are locked inside a building."
7. Visitor using his audioguide in the room where the 1270 conclave took place, on the wall the family crests of the cardinals who participated in the conclave
8. Pan right of tiles depicting all the five popes who were elected in Viterbo
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elena Cangiano, Popes’ Palace archaeologist:
“So the cardinals were locked in here. And they left us a very important testimony, a parchment, dated on the 8th of June of 1270, where they say they have been enclosed inside a palace, but above all, locked inside a ‘palazzo discoperto’ (uncovered palace), so a palace without a covering (roof). This is because seclusion wasn’t enough, they (the people of Viterbo) rationed food supplies and, above all, they decided to remove some of the room’s roof so that even the bad weather would help in the choice.”
10. Various of the 1270 parchment written during the conclave
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Elena Cangiano, Popes’ Palace archaeologist:
“So we finally have Pope Gregorio X in March 1272. So we’re talking about 1,006 days, almost three years of the seat remaining vacant and the longest conclave in history. For the first time, in Viterbo, someone closed with a key, ‘Cum Clave’, the cardinals inside a building.”
12. Visitors taking photos of the parchment
13. Visitors leaving the Palace of the Popes
14. Tilt up from the square to the top of Viterbo’s cathedral
15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Fabrizio Cardoni, resident of Viterbo:
”For a ‘Viterbese’ (resident of Viterbo) it is the history of the city. So we care about our medieval neighbourhood, we care about this palace that is truly wonderful and, let’s say, almost unique.”
16. Various of the Palace of the Popes
17. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Cristina Giusto, Italian tourist:
“Well, it was surely something quite amazing. I did not know that here had been the first conclave so it was surely a surprise."
18. Close of a painting inside the Popes’ Palace depicting two keys
19. Various of Cagiano closing the door of the room where the 1270 conclave took place
STORYLINE:
The Catholic Church’s cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called conclave.
Recent conclaves took a few days, but the longest-ever in history, in the 13th century, was nearly three years long.
It was held in Viterbo, a city north of Rome, and its citizens ended up removing the roof above the room where the cardinals were locked in, in a last-ditch effort to speed up a decision.
It took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV’s successor, making it the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history.
The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271.
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