Rome on Street View

How to recognise the city from a panorama

Italy shows ochre and terracotta facades, louvred shutters and street names cut into marble slabs set in the wall. Rome adds sanpietrini — the square basalt cobbles of its older streets.

What the streets look like

Facades are ochre and terracotta, shutters are louvred, and small cars and scooters park nose to tail. Some streets are paved in square basalt setts.

How to tell it from lookalikes

Facade colour and marble street tablets separate it from Madrid. From Naples it differs by less chaos and no laundry strung over the street.

Useful details

Street names are carved into marble slabs set into the wall rather than painted on a plate. Drinking fountains appear on almost every corner.

Geogessr drops you somewhere random in the world — sometimes in Rome. Work out where you are and drop a pin on the map.

Country giveaways

A quick check when the panorama looks unfamiliar: these signs are visible almost anywhere in the city.

Country	Italy
Driving side	right-hand
Licence plates	white · blue bands on both sides
Script on signs	Latin
Currency	EUR €
Time zone	UTC+1/+2
Domain	.it

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