The mayor of Bressanone, Italy, has assured the public that the local government will not bear the costs of Pope Benedict's planned summer vacation there.The Holy Father will be vacationing in Bressanone, in the Italian Alps, from July 27 to August 11.
The mayor, Albert Puergstaller, reports that the town will not incur the costs associated with security for the papal visit.
Italian police and Vatican security officials generally establish a tight perimeter around the cabin where the Holy Father takes his vacation, to ensure the Pope's privacy.
Pope Benedict will be staying in Bressanone for the first time since his election to the papacy in April 2005.
In 2005 and 2006 he made his summer vacations in the towns of Valle d'Aosta and Lorenzago di Cadore, the two Alpine villages that his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, had preferred as vacation spots.
But prior to his election, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger used Bressanone as a vacation spot several times.
It was in Bressanone that the German cardinal engaged in a lengthy interview in 1984, with Italian journalist Vittorio Messori as his interlocutor, to form the basis for the provocative book, The Ratzinger Report.
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