Pickpockets can cause quite a bit of inconvenience when traveling. Check the places in Europe where you should be especially careful.
Pickpockets?! One of the most basic travel tips is to keep all valuables, including your wallet, well hidden. It's not best if you carry it stuffed in your back pocket, especially if you don't want it to slip away from you. This advice should be followed especially when visiting certain tourist destinations old continents.
According to research by a British portal Quotezone.co.uk you are most likely to be targeted by pickpockets in Italy, followed by France and the Netherlands.
The research focused on mentions of pickpockets in tourist reviews of the main attractions of each country. Although Barcelona is often seen as a hotspot for pickpockets, Spain didn't even make the top five.
But it seems that the worst in Rome, where pickpockets are constantly at work, especially near major tourist attractions such as the Roman Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon. Money.co.uk's research listed as many as 2,206 opinions that mentioned pickpockets at the fountain Trevi in Rome.
The iconic fountain is one of the most important attractions in Rome, where tourists flock. Pickpockets are also aware of this. Pickpockets who work in pairs can use one cheater to attract your attention as tourists while the other pickpockets. Even the surroundings of the Milan Cathedral and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence are full of pickpockets.
France ranked second, and the Eiffel Tower was particularly critical. The Netherlands came in third place in the infamous ranking, and Germany in fourth place. Greece is fifth, followed by Spain and Portugal.
