Oh, Ok, here's another bunch of photos (Vatican-Italy and Ghana-Togo) before I head for home to do some 'real' work.
Photo 1) I took this two weeks ago. I have better ones, but they're slides. Anyway, here's the Vatican-Italy border at St. Peter's Square. The actual borderline is marked with white lines and marble pillars with chains drooping between the pillars. These are visible in the picture. The white and red barricades are simply there to keep oncoming traffic from driving into the square. (By the way, the Pope lives in one of the apartments in the big building that extends above the columns).
Photo 2) Is the main vehicular entry point into the Vatican. The borderline here is marked by the east walls of the buildings and the white pillars.
Photo 3) A secondary vehicular entry point into the Vatican. The border is the old Roman wall.
Photo 4) This is another vehicular entry into the Vatican. The actual border crosses the cobblestones just in front of the guard, along the fence line. It then goes into the parking lot--the white dotted line is the actual border. It goes along the side of the red building and around it to head south back to the Roman wall. This picture was taken facing West. While the white line marks the actual border, the Vatican leases the parking lot and the adjacent buildings from Italy, so these are effectively part of the Vatican City, although not part of its sovereign space.
Photo 5) This is the Vatican-Italy border in a small nook (you can see just below the Pope's apartment). The stone pillar marks the border, and the gate is there so the country can be closed down if necessary. You might be able to tell that the cobblestones are laid out differently at the line where the gate is. Note--there is a Vatican post office just inside the border at this point, hence all the people waiting in line.
Photo 6) The Ghana-Togo border. The border is the fence across the road. I took this picture in March 2001 standing in Togo looking into Ghana. The border is a three-meter high fence, but it ends about 25 meters from the ocean just to the left of this picture. I'll send a photo of that once it's take from the slides. Local traders walk freely back and forth on the beach around the fence.
Cheers,
Dallen
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