Click on to take a free guided, two-hour virtual tour of ancient Rome! This YouTube video shows select views of what you will see on the tour. The tour as well as 13 other virtual tours are FREE FOR THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS on Flyover Zone’s Yorescape platform. You can also experience 13 other virtual tours of iconic sites such as the Acropolis in Athens, the Giza plateau, and the Baths of Caracalla, Pantheon, Roman Forum in ancient Rome, and more.
Yorescape is Flyover Zone’s streaming app for virtual tourism, accessible to subscribers around the world 24/7. Yorescape runs on smartphones and tablets (iOS/Android) as well as on PCs (Macintosh/Windows). Support for VR is coming soon!
Your guide on the virtual tour of ancient Rome is Prof. Bernard Frischer, Director of the Rome Reborn project. At 39 stops, he explains the city’s geography, economy, housing, urban infrastructure and spatial organization, health care, recreational facilities, religious institutions, and more. There are also 12 time warps, allowing you to toggle from views of the city today to the equivalent views in antiquity.
Rome Reborn is the name of the international project which since 1996 has been creating computer reconstructions of the monuments of ancient Rome. In this video you are viewing version 4.0, which was released in November 2023. It is the principal visual resource for Prof. Frischer’s virtual tour on Yorescape. For a history of the Rome Reborn project, see: