{"id":50402,"date":"2017-08-25T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/08\/25\/rome-increases-security-in-the-vatican-area-after-attacks-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T09:53:50","slug":"rome-increases-security-in-the-vatican-area-after-attacks-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/08\/25\/rome-increases-security-in-the-vatican-area-after-attacks-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rome increases security in the Vatican area after attacks in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the tragedy in Barcelona, the city of Rome has increased its security measures in the Vatican area.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the Jubilee of Mercy beginning in November 2015, these planted pots block vehicle passage on streets like Via della Conciliazione<\/strong>, the main street leading to St. Peter's Square.<\/p>\n

Additionally, police presence is continuously high, so despite the alarm, tourists say they are calm walking these streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite of sort of uncomfortable a bit coming but as soon as we got here we feel very very safe now. There is a lot of security everywhere, that made my mind ease a little bit\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI've seen a lot of security bag checks and control detectors and body scanning and I feel like when you're in places like that it's quite safe. There are no cars here or anything so that is okay.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

The street is deserted by cars and this is something appreciated by tourists, who come to visit St. Peter's Basilica.<\/p>\n

'I was a bit scared because there have been many attacks and many threats, but I am seeing that there is sufficient protection here, even the army is in the street. So you feel safer and more protected and that gives you a little peace of mind.'<\/em><\/p>\n

'You can dwell on it, but <\/em>I prefer to live without that kind of fear,<\/em><\/strong> because it can happen anywhere. In a very touristy place or in a less relevant place, living with fear gives a small victory to those who dare to attack others. So I refuse to live with that fear.'<\/em><\/p>\n

No one knows when the state of alarm will be over, but what is clear is that all possible security measures are already under way in this area of Rome.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 25, 2017. For months there have been blockades at the entrances of main passageways, prohibiting car access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c6ZGLT9gwrk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsicurezzavaticanoeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsicurezzavaticanoint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402"}],"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=50402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}