Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Street View Italia!

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 30th October 2008

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Hot on the heels of Street View in Spain earlier this week comes Street View in Italy1, covering Milan, Florence, Rome and Lake Como.

This is a copy of Michelangelo’s David standing at his original location in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Make sure to tell us what you find, or if you prefer your Italy Sightseeing in Italian, head over to Google Sightseeing Italiano.

Thanks to Google Maps Mania


  1. Yesterday I posted about the street view cars to our Rotacoo blog, and correctly predicted that Italy would be next on the list. Could UK street view be imminent? 

10 Responses to 'Street View Italia!'

  1. Nev says:

    More nakedness on GSS!

    Won’t somebody think of the children?

  2. Patrick says:

    Oh man you just KNOW there are going to be some HOT Italian chicks on view here…hottest. women. on. earth!!

  3. Paolo says:

    Frackin’ awesome, just been roaming the streets of my youth

  4. Alex says:

    Woah, I knew David was big, but he really is big!

  5. Glenn says:

    Is this the driver of the google car, stepping out for a stretch?

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  6. Alex says:

    @Glenn - looks like he’s fiddling with the camera for some reason. Maybe turning it off?

    A wee bit up the road is this very odd garden:

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

    Which looks to be full of small statues and, er.. fireplaces? Weird.

  7. davide says:

    @NRT
    well, for Venice they have to build a google boat first, as there are no streets in which cars can drive.

  8. davide says:

    hookers in milan!
    location found by a guy in punto-informatico.it

    Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

  9. davide says:

    @Alex
    the strange garden is a seller of garden furniture, statues, and so on.
    is common for this kind of business to have such an exposition.

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