Skopje intensively prepares for the Pope’s visit on May 7. Workers at the square are working to set the stage from which the Pope will hold Mass on Tuesday. The area is enclosed with white fences. Lamps are being placed, intervention on fountains is being carried out. These day trees on the Macedonia street were also removed. On Thursday, the government gave directions to the citizens over their movement through the center of the capital during the Pope’s visit, which will be strictly limited.