you may be right about the iron gate
as i dont actually know where it is in relation to the arches in the street

& btw would like to know if you can say how you do know this

but in any case
why does the official vatican map
http://tinyurl.com/3gjob
show the vatican portion of the passetto
aka point of interest number 26
prorupting far to the east

indeed completely across the street & then some
if it is anywhere near to scale

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> Mike wrote:
>
> > & have incidentally traded positions back again in order to
> > disagree about a third detail
> > namely
> > the short proruption of the passetto into via porta angelica
> > or perhaps it is only above & not really into this street
> > & evidently only as far as the iron gate that was recently found
> > but again as claimed only on the above official map
>
> The iron gate that marks the boundary on the Passetto is on the Vatican

side of

> the archway through which the street passes. Therefore, there is no

question of

> Vatican sovereignty "above" the street.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA