The new imagery includes the interior of the Imperial Forum and the Coliseum in Rome, Santa Maria del Fiore and Ponte Vecchio in Florence, and Château d’Fontainebleau in France. Check out the full list of freshly included sites in Google’s blog post.
Although Google’s Street View service attracted a great deal of controversy when Google’s vehicles collected unencrypted data from private Wi-Fi networks — a practice Google ended a while ago — one cannot deny the appeal of having historic landmarks such as these at the tips of your fingers.
This is not the first time Street View gave users access to historic landmarks. In December 2009, Google added the ancient P ompeii ruins to Street View, and in February 2011, Google launched the Google Art Project, which lets users explore the interiors of 17 museums around the world.
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