If you can’t take a plane to Italy, there are still ways to see the sights from where you are.
If you can’t take a plane to Italy, there are still ways to see the sights from where you are.
Museums and monuments sometimes have “virtual tours” that allow you to see 3D views of a place and (usually) click to navigate through it – like Google Street View but inside.
A group of Russian photographers has taken incredible 360-degree photographs around the world. You can probably get lost in their site, AirPano, for days. I’ve linked to some of the AirPano pages for Italian cities (below).
Skyline Webcams allows you to search for live camera feeds of public places by country or category (city views, landscapes, etc.) I’ve included a few live cams from Italy in the lists below, but there are lots more on their site.
Florence
- Uffizi Gallery virtual tour (museum of Renaissance art)
- Florence AirPano
- View from the cupola of Brunelleschi’s Dome
- Take a virtual selfie with Michelangelo’s David
Milan
Naples and Pompeii
- 360 views of sites in Naples
- Archaeological Museum virtual tour*
- Walk through Pompeii ruins
- Vesuvius webcam
Pisa
Rome and the Vatican
- Rome AirPano
- Colosseum webcam
- Quirinale Palace virtual tour
- Trevi Fountain webcam
- Vatican webcams
- St. Peter’s cupola webcam – view from Piazza Risorgimento
- Saint Peter’s Square webcam
- St. Peter’s Basilica virtual tour
Venice
- San Marco Square and Rialto Bridge webcams
- Teatro La Fenice virtual tour* (more about Teatro La Fenice)
- Exhibitions at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum*
- Venice AirPano
Where would you like to “travel” to without leaving home?
Happy virtual trails!
*Not mobile friendly.
Photo credits —
- Florence (Duomo): Petar Milošević • CC BY-SA 4.0
- Florence (David): La Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze
- Naples: Italy Guides
- Rome: Vatican City State
- Venice: Regata Storica
