Hasta La Gadget!

Google has been slowly but surely rolling more Street View cars around streets and neighborhoods around the globe. They even have a bike-mounted unit that can be pedaled around alleys and back streets to get where cars and trucks aren’t able to go. 

According to a post at the official Google Blog, that’s how they managed to get full imagery of some of the world’s most recognizable historic sites, like the Colosseum and Imperial Forum in Rome, the Santa Maria del Fiore in the center of downtown Florence, Italy, and the Chateau d’Fontainbleau in France. 

Those locations are just the beginning: the images actually take you inside some of the monuments – specifically the Colosseum, and give you an incredible close-up view of some of the world’s most famous historic places, including a number of UNESCO World Heritage sites. 

Google has set up a special page specifically for their most historic street view sites, so you can browse them there, or just head through the streets of Europe in Google Maps: you’ll find you can ride right up and into some of the mapped locations there.