Canals, streets and squares, Google Street View arrives in Venice - AGI - Journalistic Agency Italy

22:48 November 14, 2013 Into (AGI) – Rome – Venice Someone once described as “without doubt, the most ‘beautiful city’ built by man” hard not to be d ‘ agreement. Today, Google Maps allows the sharing of panoramic images of one of the most ‘romantic cities in the world, captured thanks to the Trekker, the latest technological developments of Street View.

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Into were covered approximately 430 km and 185 km by foot boat, capturing not only the iconic places but several hidden gems, such as the Synagogue of the first Jewish Ghetto, the Devil’s Bridge on the island of Torcello), a mask scare the hell out of the church of Santa Maria Formosa or the place where the printer Manutius invented the italic font.

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Into Street View offers so ‘the opportunity’ to plan a trip in the city ‘lagoon and around, trying tourists with images of Google Maps.
After exploring the streets of the city’ present, and ‘possible retrace the beauty of its past immersing himself in the works of art of the Correr Museum which, together with the Museum of Glass and the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca ‘Pesaro, has joined the Google Cultural Institute. You can enjoy the works of Cesare Vecellio, Carpaccio and many others who take the visitor on a journey through the centuries in the history of Venice and its inhabitants. Google has made available to users a microsite to allow you to compare the Venice of today with paintings by Carpaccio and Caesar Vercellio depicting the same places, or the chance ‘to view the most’ beautiful places Venice using a map of 1838 . (AGI).