Pickpocketing Hotspots in Nine Popular Travel Destinations
When traveling to unfamiliar terrain, you must be especially mindful of your surroundings and potential risks, such as pickpocketing. Pickpockets usually target uninformed tourists in popular destinations. Here are nine popular cities and their hotspots.
Citybase Apartments have collected data from their own research (you can go to their post to see their full list of sources). Some of them are pretty straightforward. Any place where tourists gather is essentially a hotspot, but some places are more problematic than others. Here are a couple on their list for each city.
Barcelona, Spain
- Las Ramblas
- Plaza Catalunya
Rome, Italy
- Termini
- Via dei Fori Imperiali
Prague, Czech Republic
- Old Town Square
- The Charles Bridge
Madrid, Spain
- El Rastro
- Metro
Paris, France
- Eiffel Tower
- Cathedral of Notre Dame
Florence, Italy
- Ponte Vecchio
- San Lorenzo Market
Amsterdam, Holland
- Red light district
- Dam Square
Athens, Greece
- Omonia square
- Metaxourgio
London, England
- Oxford street
- Camden
You always want to pay attention to your surroundings, but it helps to know the areas where pickpockets hit the most so you can prepare. To find out more, check out their infographic at the link below.
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