peter
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- 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.
>
> 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 . So
not in
> the middle of the colonnade; it's just that those columns that
> are "sticking out" are in Italy.
the author evidently bases this conclusion on too literal a
reading of the treaty maps
which are so crudely schematic as to ignore not just these 2 but
all the propylaea that stick out from the basic colonnades
but the official vatican map is more architecturally detailed & thus
indicates & includes these in vatican territory
while incidentally not laying claim to the questionable triangle
& the official vatican list of extraterritorial properties that you
provide below does not mention them as being extraterritorial
& i am not aware that italy has ever claimed that they are in italy
nor can i imagine she ever would
as they are so clearly part of the architectural whole that the
boundary was so clearly intended to enclose
also unless i am mistaken
such a peculiar territorial division would make these colonnades
the only divided buildings anywhere on itva
which is unique in being fundamentally if not entirely an
architecturally based boundary
> 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
>
> http://tinyurl.com/23v58 is the most complete one that I know of
on
> the internet.
> Peter S.