Italy

It’s Volcano Week 3 here at GSS, which explains why all of our posts over the course of the week are very likely to be volcano related. In a suburb of Naples lies a shallow volcanic crater named Solfatara. Considered…

It's hard not to see the rear of a naked woman in the shapes made by this field in Sicily, Italy. As you can see though, the title of this post refers not to the fact that she's half naked…

To celebrate International Mother Language Day1 Google Sightseeing has some really big news - today, for the first time we're launching Google Sightseeing in a foreign language! Not only that but we're launching two at the same time - French…

Miniature parks and model villages are sort of like a pre-internet 3D Google Earth, allowing you to view a representation of a village or city sights from above. So it's no surprise that on visiting my local park, Bekonscot Model…

Your average portrait painting isn't very large or, in the case of the Mona Lisa, it's surprisingly tiny. That said, we have found one or two giant portraits which are viewable from above. To start, Anne Frank can be seen…

When it opened in 1923, Fiat's Lingotto Building was the largest car factory in the world. It featured an entirely unique design where raw materials entered on the ground floor, and the cars were constructed on an assembly line which…