Rome Through Time

2,700 years on one map

Map key

Monuments — can you visit today?
Standing today — you can visit
Ruins you can visit
Vanished — known from history
The map
The river Tiber
The seven hills
Parks & gardens (quiet green walks)
City walls — inner Servian, outer Aurelian
Aqueducts
Roads (the Via Appia)
Sites of Rome
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Rome Through Time

Drag the slider at the bottom to move from the founding of Rome (753 BC) to the present day. Watch the city grow, its walls expand, and its great monuments rise — rendered as a retro pixel-art world.