On what seemed like an ordinary day at the Vatican, tourists began to gather by the columns in St. Peter's Square as something grabbed their attention.<\/p>\n
It was this cat, trapped along the ledge of Bernini's colonnade, some 52-feet high.<\/p>\n
The Vatican fire brigade came on to the scene to launch a fully-fledged rescue operation. <\/p>\n
Using cranes they approached the ledge to get closer to the cat. <\/p>\n
They tried to keep it calm...and this fireman misses a chance to catch it.<\/p>\n
It quickly became clear that this would not be an easy rescue. <\/p>\n
The cat then began wandering freely along the ledge overlooking St. Peter's Square.<\/p>\n
As the firefighters regrouped, many tourists pass by to see what all the commotion is about.<\/p>\n
'It's a bit surprising to see a cat on a ledge and not know where it entered or how it will come out, to me it is very curious.'<\/em><\/p>\n 'I have had cats and I don't know if they have nine lives, but at least two or three.'<\/em><\/p>\n The firefighters tried to catch the cat once again, this time with two cranes and a cardboard box. <\/p>\n 'You could see that he was scared, but they did everything, to get that poor cat down, they brought two cranes, a bunch of policemen, and in the end it was what I had predicted: that when they went up there the cat ran away, the cat ran and didn't let them catch him.'<\/em><\/p>\n After nearly two hours the cat jumped from the ledge, and landed safely on the ground before being retrieved by firefighters. <\/p>\n It may continue to wander around Rome's other tourist attractions, but it surely won't find a more scenic home than overlooking the Vatican. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n SO-BA<\/p>\n TR: JM<\/p>\n AA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 15, 2022. The animal strolled calmly along the ledge above the 52-foot-tall columns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NHhCY-joVjQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgattocolonnatoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bgattocolonnatoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}