Rome Reborn, here is the app that allows you to visit the Rome of 320 AD.

Have you always wanted to visit Rome in the time of Emperor Constantine? You can do so with Rome Reborn, the app that allows you to virtually visit the Eternal City in 320 AD!

The app was developed by a team of international academics and technology experts who have worked for a good 22 years to create the software that takes the user to admire the Caput Mundi through its monuments reconstructed in 3D images as they appeared centuries ago: from the Circus Maximus to the Colosseum, from the Imperial Forums to theArch of Septimius Severus, passing through the Temple of Vesta, the Basilica Aemilia and the Basilica of Maxentius.

The project was born in 1996, when the working committee was formed, and today provides access to more than 7 thousand monumental buildings, covering an area of 14 square kilometers within the Aurelian Walls exploring them in every detail and angle. “The dream of rebuilding Rome is an ancient dream,” the project director, Bernard Frischer, tells ANSA, citing the works of Flavio Biondo and Pirro Ligorio. “For me the most important was Italo Gismondi’s model, made between 1935 and 1971.”

“In some of the available chapters,” continues Frischer, who received the Pioneer Award and Tartessos Award for this project, “you fly over the landscape, in others you can enter and walk around. Costs range from $1.99 to $7, depending on length. The dream is to get to 15-20 apps in 3 years. Probably in 3-4 years we will even be able to combine them all into one immersive experience where you can walk all over Rome.”

“We will update it as studies and technologies progress,” adds Paolo Liverani, professor of classical archaeology at theUniversity of Florence. “Of projects like this, with 22 years of work, redone three times and with these results, I don’t remember any others. Plus, it’s colorful, as Rome was at the time. And dynamic, so that we can, for example, retrace the path of Constantine when he entered Rome triumphant.”

The app is available in Italian, English and Chinese and is available for both smart devices and PCs. To visit the official website you can click here.

Rome Reborn, here is the app that allows you to visit the Rome of 320 AD.

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