Google recently released a website of the most beautiful of its kind, to explore the most beautiful places in the world, as if taking a virtual trip online . For this web application Google has used its special online service Street View of Google Maps, that is the street view of the city streets, photographed at 360 degrees, in every corner.
This time the photos are of some famous monuments and landscapes among the most famous in the world, places that, until a few years ago, could only be seen in an expensive tourist trip.
Since unfortunately for many it will be impossible to go to each of these wonderful places, Google World Wonders becomes a really important site to be immediately placed as a favorite, to travel online from your PC
Google World Wonders has been released in Italian and allows quick and easy navigation to all the places available in the StreetView gallery, the main website making panoramic visits from the PC of cities, monuments and landscapes.
From Google World Wonders you can search for locations from the top menu based on geographic location or you can search by theme.
Among the topics are: architecture, monuments, castles, palaces, cities, churches, landscapes, parks and archaeological or historical sites.
Below is the figure of the planet Earth, which can be rotated with the mouse to quickly select a particular place.
Among the virtual trips in Italy there are about 20 locations including Villa Adriana, Villa D'Este, Cinque Terre, Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, the historic center of Siena and several others.
The site also includes 3D models, photographs and YouTube videos of historical places, so you can dig deeper and get more information and a wider view of each place.
With Street view, you can use the mouse to move around the streets or inside the monuments, also zooming in to enlarge the details and turning around 360 degrees as if you were in the center of the square.
The World Wonders Project also provides guides for primary and secondary school students in the teaching section.
Google World Wonders comes after another big Google Art Project to take Virtual tours of 3D museums .
However, it is not the only website of this type; in another post 8 other sites had already been reported with panoramic views and 360-degree photos from around the world .
Below, the presentation video, beautiful and suggestive.
