More than 30,000 people, many from Uruguay but also from neighbouring Argentina and Brazil, had registered to attend the Mass in the Parque Paris Londres, a sprawling green space on the southern edge of Paysandu, a city that no pope has ever visited before

The 85-year-old musician, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, is currently in Italy as part of the autumn leg of his 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' tour. He is scheduled to perform at Rome's Palazzo dello Sport on Thursday, November 5