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In Pictures: See Eerie Pictures of the World’s Most Popular Cultural Sites Emptied by the Coronavirus

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Mar 10, 2020
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On the first day of Italy’s national emergency-mandated
quarantine, the country’s most famous landmarks are eerily devoid
of life. On Monday, Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte declared
the “whole of Italy will become a protected zone,” instituting
travel restrictions that can be avoided only for work or health
emergencies.

Around the world, countries are experiencing striking declines
in tourism as people have been instructed to avoid large groups and
limit travel. Recent photographs give a sense of the apocalyptic
feel in these hallowed sites, which are usually buzzing with
activity. Vendors have abandoned their posts, restaurants and bars
are empty, and most heritage sites are closed to the public—even
the Pope broke with centuries of tradition to deliver his weekly
prayer by live videostream to discourage the faithful from
gathering en masse in St Peter’s Square. See snapshots of cultural
sites around the world below.

St Peter’s Square before the
live-broadcasting of Pope Francis’s Sunday Angelus prayer during
the Coronavirus emergency, on March 8, 2020 in Vatican City. (Photo
by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

The live broadcast of the Pope in
Vatican City on March 8. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty
Images)

Tourists, some of them wearing
respiratory masks, visit the Coliseum in Rome on March 6, 2020.
(Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Tourists arrive at an empty and closed
St. Peter’s Square on March 9, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by
Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

The few tourists pose outside Ho Chi
Minh mausoleum in Hanoi on March 8, 2020. (Photo by MANAN
VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)

A small number of tourists visit the
nearly empty Sensoji temple in Tokyo’s Asakusa district on March 9,
2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

A general view of Red Square Moscow,
Russia, on March 10, 2020. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency
via Getty Images)

First day of quarantine for Italy in
Milan on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via
Getty Images)

March 9, 2020 in Venice, Italy. (Photo
by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

An empty Riva degli Schiavoni next to
San Marco Square on March 9, 2020. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty
Images)

Tourists take pictures of the closed
Ancient Forum on March 8, 2020, in Rome. (Photo by ALBERTO
PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

A nun crosses the Vatican’s Saint
Peter’s Square on March 10, 2020 after the square and its main
basilica were closed to tourists as part of a broader clampdown
aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by TIZIANA
FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Capitoline Hill square without people
during the coronavirus emergency on March 10, 2020, in Rome, Italy.
(Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Capitoline Hill desolate during the
Coronavirus emergency on March 10, 2020, in Rome, Italy. (Photo by
Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

A man rides a bicycle past the Altare
della Patria – Vittorio Emanuele II monument on Piazza Venezia in
downtown Rome on March 10, 2020. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via
Getty Images)

A lone woman walks down the steps of the Great Theatre at the Pompeii Archeological Park on Friday 6th March 2020 in Pompei, Italy. (Photo by Jonathan Perugia/In Pictures via Getty Images).

A lone woman walks down the steps of the
Great Theatre at the Pompeii Archeological Park on Friday, March 6,
2020 in Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Jonathan Perugia/In Pictures via
Getty Images)

Three young tourists pose for a
photograph in the nearly-deserted Forum at the Pompeii
Archeological Park on Friday, March 6 in Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by
Jonathan Perugia/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Few tourists at Red Square after
restrictions placed on Chinese and Iranian tourists following the
coronavirus outbreak in Moscow, Russia, on March 10, 2020. (Photo
by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

San Marco Square on March 9, 2020 in
Venice, Italy. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

A general view on March 10, 2020 shows
the deserted Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Tuscany, with the
Battistero di San Giovanni (center) and the Santa Maria del Fiore
cathedral (rear) as Italy imposed unprecedented national travel
restrictions. (Photo by CARLO BRESSAN/AFP via Getty Images)

A general view on March 10, 2020 shows
the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square and its main basilica empty.
(Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Basilica of the Pantheon with very few
tourists on March 5, 2020 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Simona Granati
– Corbis/Getty Images)

Women stand outside Notre Dame on March
9, 2020 in Paris. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

The deserted Piazza San Marco on March
6, 2020 in Venice, Italy. (Photo StefanoMazzola/Awakening/Getty
Images)

A completely empty San Marco Square on
March 9, 2020 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty
Images)

Outside the Dome of the Rock mosque at
the Al-Aqsa mosques compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on
Sunday, March 8, 2020. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty
Images)

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