{"id":250860,"date":"2025-10-25T14:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250860\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:33:14","slug":"japanese-tourist-dies-in-fall-from-pantheon-in-rome-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250860\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese tourist dies in fall from Pantheon in Rome | Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A Japanese tourist has died after falling from the outer wall of the Pantheon in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The man, 69, had been sitting on the wall before he plunged 7 metres into the ancient landmark\u2019s moat on Friday night, the Italian news agency, Ansa, reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rescuers had to force open a gate on the Via della Palombella outside the Pantheon in order to reach the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rome police have opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">According to reports in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.online\/2025\/10\/25\/roma-turista-giapponese-cade-muro-pantheon\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italian press<\/a> on Saturday, the man was visiting Rome with his daughter, who told police he fell after being overcome by a sudden illness, causing him to lose his balance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The wall is often packed with tourists taking a break from sightseeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Pantheon, which was built by Roman emperor Hadrian and is famous for its oculus \u2013 the hole in its giant dome \u2013 is one of Italy\u2019s most visited monuments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Entrance was free until 2023, when a ticketing system was introduced. The \u20ac5 fee was controversial at the time, but it did nothing to deter tourists, with more than 4 million visiting the site in 2024. Long queues often form in Piazza della Rotonda outside the monument.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It is not the only tragedy to have struck tourists in Rome this year. In March, a 55-year-old woman from Spain died after falling from a high wall at the side of the Spanish Steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In April, Grant Paterson, a tourist from Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/scottish-tourist-dies-in-rome-hospital-after-suspected-gas-explosion#:~:text=His%20death%20was%20announced%20on,with%20complete%20peace%20of%20mind.%E2%80%9D\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died after suffering severe burns<\/a> in a suspected gas explosion at a building in Rome where he was staying in rented accommodation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Paterson, 54, had arrived in the city a few days before the incident on a solo trip, visiting sites including the Trevi Fountain, Pantheon and the Colosseum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There has been a boom in visitor numbers to Rome since the coronavirus pandemic, with a new record of 22.2m arrivals set in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Japanese tourist has died after falling from the outer wall of the Pantheon in Rome. The man,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-250860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}