In Rome, the second basilica, St. Peter and the second Vatican, have baptized Santa Maria Magio because of the believers since Sunday. On the first day of the funeral of Pope Francis, about seventy thousand and more than forty thousand on Monday visited the grave of the deceased church. On Tuesday, they were open again at seven in the morning and they were open until half of the eight in the evening. Previously, the daily number of visitors to the basilica was about three thousand on average.
The authorities estimate that the number of waiting lists will decrease after a long weekend after May 1, but it may increase again in the summer and remain high in the current holy year.
Roman governor Lamberto Giannini said that Santa Maria Magor Bazilica may become one of the priority goals for pilgrims to Rome because of the grave of Pope Francis.
On Sunday, Sunday, which is currently at the present time for the Bazilica line. However, in the coming weeks, a new security system will be presented in the entire city area called Esquilino Hill, which entered into force in the first tightening of Tuesday.
Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica is located in one of the busiest parts in the city, next to the largest train station in the country, next to the Termini station station, where two lines of metro and dozens of buses meet. Half a million people pass through the Termini area daily.
Santa Maria Magiot surrounds residential buildings, schools, supermarkets and hotels. The Ministry of Interior is also near. The area in front of the basilica is a traffic node, so the security conditions are completely different from the most spacious Saint Peter box that belongs to the Vatican, which is easy to close.
The authorities are planning to convert the entire Santa Maria Maglor area into an extraordinary security area. It increases the number of police and establishes pedestrian areas where possible, providing space for first aid points.
People in the region are concerned about the already exacerbated by the great traffic chaos, but they are happy to exist, as the trairtification of the train station had a lot of thief, medicine and homeless.
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(In our opening image: Pope Francis in Romanian Santa Maria Maglor Basilica on April 27, 2025)