Street View Italy
Italy rewards Street View more than almost anywhere, because so much of what is worth seeing is at street level and packed too tightly to make sense from above. A great deal of it was captured on foot.
City guides
2 written guides for Italy, each with the streets worth walking and the views worth opening.
What the coverage is like
Historic centres are largely pedestrian, so a lot of Italy was shot with the trolley and the backpack rather than the car. Venice has no roads at all and is covered anyway.
Hill towns are covered up to and often inside the walls, which is where the interesting part starts.
Coverage of the coast roads is good, including the Amalfi corniche and the Ligurian cliff roads, both of which are more legible at street level than from the air.
Worth opening beyond the city guides
Matera, where the cave dwellings were inhabited continuously from prehistory until the 1950s and are now hotels.
The Cinque Terre footpaths, captured on foot between the villages rather than only on the road above them.
Val d'Orcia in Tuscany, which is farmland that was deliberately shaped and is on the UNESCO list for that reason.
Civita di Bagnoregio, on an eroding tuff outcrop reached by a single footbridge.
Places to open
8 locations in Italy, each one a single click into Street View at the right spot and facing the right way.
Questions about Street View in Italy
Is Venice on Street View if there are no roads?
Yes. Venice was captured on foot with a backpack rig, so the alleys, bridges and squares are all walkable in Street View even though no car has ever driven there.
Are Italian hill towns covered?
Usually, and often inside the walls rather than just the approach road. Where a centre is pedestrian it was captured on foot.