The Hotel Aquila & Reale is connected, even through internal covered paths, with the medieval Complex “Commenda di Prè”, founded by the Knights of St. John (now of Malta) in 1180.
Pilgrims and crusaders, such as Richard the Lionheart King of England, stayed in “Palazzo della Commenda di Prè” before the departure for the Holy Land.
Pope Urbano VI, fled from Rome after the Schism of the West and the establishment of Anti-Pope Clemente VII, found refuge right here between 1385 and 1386.
From the “Palazzo della Commenda di Prè”, Pope Urbano ruled the universal Church for a year and a half before his return to Rome.
The complex of Commenda, formed by a cloister rich of plants and two churches overlapped almost millennial, is partly open upon request, both for devotion and historical interest reasons.
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