Isometric Rome
Isometric Rome shows the Eternal City the way an old city-builder game would: St. Peter’s and the Vatican Museums in the west, the bend of the Tiber with Castel Sant’Angelo, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in the centre, and the Roman Forum, the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus in the south-east. Drag to explore, zoom in to single streets, and tap a name to learn about the place.
Streets, parks, tram lines and every building footprint come from OpenStreetMap. Only about a quarter of the buildings here have a mapped height, so the rest get an estimated four to seven floors, close to the typical height of the old centre; St. Peter’s, the Pantheon and the big palaces are drawn from their mapped 3D parts. The Colosseum is modelled by hand from its published dimensions, with its ruined south side. Orange trams and cars run in the streets, and the ☀ button switches the map from night to day.
Places on the map
- 1506–1626 · Vatican City
- St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the largest churches in the world, under the dome designed by Michelangelo. The cross on top stands about 136 m above the ground. Wikipedia ↗
- AD 70–80 · 189 × 156 m
- The Flavian Amphitheatre, built under Vespasian and Titus, held tens of thousands of spectators for gladiator fights. Its ruined south side lost its outer ring to earthquakes and stone robbers. Wikipedia ↗
- around AD 125
- A Roman temple rebuilt under Hadrian. Its dome, 43 m across with an open oculus at the top, is still the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. Wikipedia ↗
- 1885–1935
- The white marble monument to Victor Emmanuel II, first king of united Italy, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Romans nicknamed it “the wedding cake”. Wikipedia ↗
- 1762 · Nicola Salvi
- The largest baroque fountain in the city. Throw a coin over your shoulder into it and, the story goes, you will return to Rome. Wikipedia ↗
- AD 130s · Hadrian
- Built as the mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian, later a papal fortress joined to the Vatican by a walled passage, the Passetto di Borgo. Wikipedia ↗
- on the Stadium of Domitian
- The long oval square keeps the shape of the ancient stadium beneath it. In the middle stands Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651). Wikipedia ↗
- 1723–1725
- The baroque staircase from the Piazza di Spagna up to the church of Trinità dei Monti. Wikipedia ↗
- ancient Rome
- The Roman Forum, centre of public life in ancient Rome: temples, basilicas and the Senate house in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitoline hills. Wikipedia ↗
- chariot racing
- The great chariot-racing stadium of ancient Rome, now a long grassy valley below the Palatine. Wikipedia ↗
- papal collections
- The museums of the popes, with the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel, whose ceiling Michelangelo painted in 1508–1512. Wikipedia ↗
- across the Tiber
- The medieval quarter on the west bank of the Tiber, a maze of cobbled lanes, trattorias and the basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere. Wikipedia ↗
- landscape park
- Rome’s best-known park, laid out for Cardinal Scipione Borghese, with the Galleria Borghese and its Berninis. Wikipedia ↗
- papal basilica
- One of the four papal major basilicas of Rome and the largest church in the city dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Wikipedia ↗
- cathedral of Rome
- The cathedral of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, and the oldest of the city’s papal basilicas. Wikipedia ↗
- railway station
- Italy’s busiest railway station, named after the ancient Baths of Diocletian across the street. Wikipedia ↗
- Capitoline Hill · Michelangelo
- The hill of Rome’s city hall, with a square designed by Michelangelo and the Capitoline Museums. Wikipedia ↗
- river
- The Tiber, on which the city was founded, curving between Trastevere and the centre around the Isola Tiberina. Wikipedia ↗
- 1889–1911
- The vast palace of justice by the Tiber, seat of Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation, nicknamed “il Palazzaccio”. Wikipedia ↗
- northern gate
- The square inside the old northern gate of the city, with an Egyptian obelisk and two near-twin churches. Wikipedia ↗
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