Overview
- A roughly 22‑member Vatican advance delegation led by monseñor José Nahúm Salas has spent early July carrying out on‑site technical inspections in Pucallpa, Chiclayo and Cusco to evaluate candidate venues.
- Inspectors assessed access routes, medical and security contingency plans, media areas and crowd capacity at specific sites including Aliardo Soria Pérez stadium, the Pampas de Reque and the Sacsayhuamán esplanade.
- The team will return to Rome with a technical report that the pope and the Secretariat of State will use to decide a final itinerary and official dates, so local schedules remain unconfirmed.
- Peruvian national and regional authorities are coordinating logistics and security and the Executive has provisionally allocated about 10 million soles for related infrastructure and services.
- Pope León XIV’s long pastoral ties to Peru help explain the multi‑city proposal and the scale of planning given the tens of thousands of faithful expected and the transport, safety and local‑services effects this would bring.