Italy
Rome
Walk where emperors plotted, where Bernini chiseled, where Caravaggio brawled. Rome is layers — every step uncovers another century.
What makes Rome a Ciro city
Rome is the first city fully mapped by Ciro. From the underground basilicas of San Clemente to the conspiratorial cafes of Trastevere, Ciro narrates the city in real time as you walk — surfacing the stories textbooks skip and locals whisper. Hidden frescoes, gladiator gossip, and the truth behind the obelisks: Rome, unlocked layer by layer.
- 47 hand-crafted location stories across 9 neighborhoods
- AR overlays at the Colosseum, Pantheon, and Forum
- Audio in English, Italian, and Farsi — narrated cinematic-style
- Hidden-gem trails curated with Roman storytellers
Inside Rome
A taste of the 47+ stories ready to walk.
- Cinematic3 min
Acqua Paola — The Great Beauty
The opening scene of Sorrentino's 2013 Oscar winner: a choir sings as a Japanese tourist collapses overwhelmed by the Janiculum panorama. Anchored to the fountain terrace — tap the AR camera to step into Rome's most cinematic vista.
- Cinematic3 min
Porta Portese — Bicycle Thieves
Antonio and Bruno scour the chaotic Sunday market for the stolen bicycle that determines their family's survival. Anchored to the market entrance — tap to relive the cornerstone of Italian Neorealism, on the same street that still trades every Sunday.
- Cinematic45 min
Roman Holiday — A Day With Princess Ann
Walk Audrey Hepburn's runaway day across Rome in three stops: Joe Bradley's apartment on Via Margutta, the haircut on Via della Stamperia, and the floating-barge dance at Castel Sant'Angelo. Each stop unlocks the original 1953 scene as an AR billboard on the exact pavement Wyler shot it.
- Cinematic3 min
Via Veneto — La Dolce Vita
The street that gave the world the word 'paparazzi'. Marcello drinks at a Via Veneto cafe table while flashbulbs pop around him — anchored to the Harry's Bar / Café de Paris stretch where Fellini staged the heart of his 1960 masterpiece.
- Historical3 min
Mount Aventine — J.M.W. Turner
Turner painted Rome's most atmospheric panorama from this terrace in 1835: hazy light over the Tiber bend with St. Peter's dome glowing in the distance. The view he saw is still here. Anchored to the Orange Garden — tap to overlay his canvas onto reality.
- Hidden Layers2 min
Café de Paris — The First Paparazzo
On Via Veneto in 1958, exiled King Farouk flipped a cafe table at photographer Tazio Secchiaroli — the founding incident that gave the world the word 'paparazzi' and inspired Fellini's La Dolce Vita two years later.
- HistoricalAR5 min
Parco Schuster: The Shooting Garden
Cardinal Schuster's secret hillside garden hides crates of memory. Tap to shoot, break all five, and unlock the garden's last whisper in AR — anchored to the real terrace above the Aventino.
- HistoricalAR3 min
Parco Schuster — Crate Strike
AR shooter on the terrace above Parco Schuster. Real ArionDigital crates anchored to the terrain — tap anywhere with the centre reticle aimed at a crate to fire and break it.
- HistoricalAR3 min
Prati 3 — Crate Strike
v2 framework test. Stand at Via dei Gracchi, tap to fire, and break all five floating crates to validate the new shooter on device.