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The Vatican City, Rome and Italy are likely to see a surge of visitors in 2025, a Catholic Church Jubilee Year. The Italian capital, which encircles the Vatican and St Peter’s Basilica, is projected to host up to 35 million tourists and pilgrims – more than 10 times Rome’s population. And just as 2023 and 2024 saw complaints about price hikes in Paris ahead of the recent Summer Olympic Games, Rome is facing accusations of gouging – and not from Italian cities vying with it for business or Whore-of-Babylon-shouting Protestants or even atheist and secularist cynics about religion. Pilgrims and t…