Pope Francis announced the plan for a Jubilee in 2025 in a letter to Archbishop Rino Fisichella…
JUNE 2022
ABP. RINO FISICHELLA
Pro-Prefect, Dicastery for Evangelization
These two years also serve to make Rome and Italy a city and a country that can once again show its best with its tradition of hospitality.
…but this was the moment the Pope first invited young people to make a pilgrimage to Rome in 2025.
AUGUST 2023
POPE FRANCIS
I invite young people from all over the world to Rome in 2025 to celebrate the Jubilee of Youth together.
And with that, Italian authorities went to work preparing a plan of action to get the entire city ready for this international meeting.
JANUARY 2023
ROBERTO GUALTIERI
Governor of Rome, Italy
It is a moment of extraordinary importance that gives us, as the Italian state and as the city of Rome, a great responsibility to support and to help this event with all our commitment and all our strength.
With a budget of almost 2 billion dollars, the city of Rome launched a renovation plan with a total of 335 projects, ranging from major works to minor street improvements.
JANUARY 2023
ALFREDO MANTOVANO
Under-Secretary, Presidency Council of Ministers
Essential and open-ended works are planned, but they are practical projects, as I said before. The tunnel under Piazza Pia and the upgrading of the Gregorio VII tunnel. There are also significant works from the point of view of reception.
These images show the area around the Vatican in August 2023. Bulldozers and streets blocked off are a common sight throughout the city and they will affect tourists who visit the Eternal City in the months leading up to the Jubilee.
Rome's city council maintains that they are breaking records in terms of time and that everything will be ready by 2025.
AUGUST 2023
ROBERTO GUALTIERI
Governor of Rome, Italy
Typically, in this city but also all over Italy, we talk about taking years to finish work. Instead, with these projects we have managed in a few months to open the construction site and now have a timetable that allows us to plan for the timely completion—before the Jubilee.
But Rome has several challenges to face before 2025. First, it will have to complete the planned works and create infrastructure to accommodate pilgrims traveling to the Italian capital.
Additionally, the city will have to address the current situation of the tourism sector, where many downtown apartments are being converted into short-stay apartments. Many of them without being legally regulated-something that is likely to affect hotels and the Roman residents themselves.
Rome must also take into account the security of the city, above all, at strategic points, such as train stations, subways and airports. All this ahead of the estimated 50 million pilgrims expected to pass through Rome in 2025.
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