A few days ago news broke out that the United States was moving its Embassy to the Vatican (the Holy See) to the campus of its Embassy to Italy. The news reports correctly did not state that the United States was closing its Embassy to the Holy See, but that the United States was consolidating operations into one campus due to safety concerns. The Embassy to the Holy See would still function as before but at a different location.
From the start I was unable to grasp the problem described by so many concerned people. Unless evidence existed that the State Department or President Obama had directly shown ill-will in the consolidation process of the embassies, there seemed to be no reason to get upset over the move.
Today I came across a picture that in one quick view explains why the embassies were consolidated into one safer campus. Below on the left is the US Embassy to the Holy See that will be closing, to the right is the US Embassy to Italy out of which now the Embassy to the Holy See will function.
The article I read included another picture that sheds even more light on this issue. The map of Rome below marks where the US Embassy to the Holy See that will be closing was located (bottom right) and where it will be relocated along with the Embassy to Italy (top right). Vatican City is marked on the left. Note that the original embassy was not within the boundaries of the Vatican City State (as are all embassies to the Holy See as far as I know). Its new location is actually just a bit closer to the Vatican than its previous location.