Cool new Google upgrade
Google Maps delivered Street View a year or so in the past and they were busily mapping out the most important metro areas of the US because. Well, now that they have a variety of america protected, they've been working on the relaxation of the world. I simply took a virtual stroll thru Rome and it appears like I become actually there. Kind of. I guess the next step goes to be to make the pictures move. But check this out.
Here I turned into walking down the road and looking again on the Vittorio Emanuelle.
Here's the Piazza Barberini, and I'm status without delay throughout the piazza from the Via della Purificazione. I left my heart halfway up that road... Anyhow, these pictures are so clean I feel like I ought to walk over and wash my ft in Bernini's Triton within the middle of the piazza.
This is the entrance to the Villa Borghese at the top of the Via Veneto. The only factor missing is the sound of the car horns and the buzzing scooters.
And right here's searching throughout the Piazza Rotunda at my beloved Pantheon. I nonetheless can't recover from this factor. Got a while to kill this weekend? Get thee to Google Maps!