{"id":1939,"date":"2007-07-23T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:50:44","slug":"google-sightseeing-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sightseeing: Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Europe's a fascinating place\" id=\"image1942\" title=\"Europe's a fascinating place\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/europe.jpg\" \/>After <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-north-america\/\">experiencing<\/a> the over-the-top commercialism of the USA I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time for some culture, so I&#8217;ve hit Europe on the next leg of the insideTonic <a href=\"http:\/\/google-earth.en.softonic.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a> global tour. The continent is a world away from the modern delights of America and it was great to explore the ancient wonders of the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/ancient-greece.kml\">Acropolis<\/a> in Athens and the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=18&amp;ll=41.89021,12.492324&amp;spn=0.002304,0.004179&amp;t=k&amp;om=1\">Colleseum<\/a> in Rome. Unfortunately, by the time I got to Pisa in Italy my copy of Google Earth didn&#8217;t seem to be working properly, as <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?t=k&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=43.723002,10.396473&amp;spn=0.001841,0.003455\">this tower<\/a> appeared to be a little wonky when I viewed it.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully this glitch didn&#8217;t last long. After managing to scale <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=45.92,6.92&amp;spn=0.2,0.2&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Europe&#8217;s largest mountain<\/a> as I crossed the alps, I arrived in Paris where the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=48.858379,2.293707&amp;spn=0.004088,0.006459&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Eiffel tower<\/a> appeared much straighter than the last one I&#8217;d been to. After a quick dinner date with an odd looking man at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=48.853122,2.349658&amp;spn=0.005000,0.007789&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Notre Dame<\/a>, I was off again. This time it was over the former iron curtain of the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.503115,13.4446&amp;spn=0.001796,0.005&amp;t=k&amp;om=1\">Berlin wall<\/a> to the East where I visited <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=50.036459,19.191742&amp;spn=0.042315,0.061541&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Auschwitz<\/a> in Poland and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satellite-sightseer.com\/id\/2038\/Russian_Federation\/Russia\/Moscow\/Moscow_Kremlin\">Kremlin<\/a> in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>When I got to London, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=51.500612,-0.124326&amp;spn=0.007467,0.008680&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Big Ben<\/a> told me that time was running out before I head to my next continent, so I quickly hopped across to check out the strange monoliths of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?t=k&amp;hl=en&amp;ll=51.178859,-1.826386&amp;spn=0.00192,0.003782&amp;om=1\">Stonehenge<\/a>. Of course, no trip to England would be complete without a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=18&amp;ll=51.495178,-0.197121&amp;spn=0.001473,0.003675&amp;t=k&amp;om=1\">Freddy Mercury&#8217;s house<\/a>, and after that I headed for the bibical mountain of <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?t=k&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=39.708771,44.300995&amp;spn=0.119117,0.235519&amp;om=1\">Ararat<\/a> in Turkey, from where I&#8217;ll launch my assault on Asia next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After experiencing the over-the-top commercialism of the USA I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time for some culture, so I&#8217;ve hit Europe on the next leg of the insideTonic Google Earth global tour. The continent is a world away from the modern delights of America and it was great to explore the ancient wonders of the Acropolis in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Sightseeing: Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337385,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/337385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}