Subject: Re: vatican tidbit
Date: Apr 08, 2004 @ 11:52
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16" <raedwulf16@y...>
wrote:
> did you know that although the Holy See(Vatican City State) is a
> sovereign entity apart from Italy,those world famous columns "out
> front" are partly in Rome!!? .It appears that the boundary is
> located in the mid section of the columns.

Not in the middle of the colonnade; it's just that those columns
that "stick out" are in Italy. See
http://www.globalgeografia.com/europa/index_scv.htm ff. The columns:
http://www.globalgeografia.com/europa/vaticano/fig03a.jpg and
http://www.globalgeografia.com/europa/vaticano/fig03b.jpg .

Also can anyone provide me
> with a list of the properties outside of the Vatican proper
> which "enjoy" extra territorial rights from Italy as properties of
> the Vatican? I can find numerous references to them ,but have as
of
> yet failed to find a "list".thanks

The best list on the internet that I know of is at
http://tinyurl.com/23v58 .

Peter S.