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A DIGITAL TIME CAPSULE FROM THE YEAR 2000

In 2000, De Agostini published the Città del Mondo series: multimedia CD-ROMs with websites, photographs and video tours of the world’s great cities. Twenty-five years later, three of them are back online — pick a city to dive in.

Sagrada Família SPAIN
Barcelona
CITTÀ DEL MONDO · BARCELLONA
Gaudí and Miró, the Ramblas, the post-Olympic city still riding its 1992 high — Sagrada Família, Park Güell, Plaça Reial, Montjuïc and more.
17 SITES · 94 PHOTOS · 44 CLIPS
Enter Barcelona » 		Brandenburger Tor GERMANY
Berlin
CITTÀ DEL MONDO · BERLINO
A reunified capital barely a decade after the Wall came down — Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag, Fernsehturm, Museumsinsel, Schloss Charlottenburg, Sanssouci and the ghosts of the DDR.
20 SITES · 68 PHOTOS · 23 CLIPS
Enter Berlin » 		Statue of Liberty U.S.A.
New York
CITTÀ DEL MONDO · NEW YORK
Pre-9/11 Manhattan, twin towers still on the skyline — Statue of Liberty, Empire State, Times Square, the Met, MoMA, Central Park, Lincoln Center and Wall Street.
22 SITES · 108 PHOTOS · 41 CLIPS
Enter New York »
» TOTAL «   3 CITIES · 59 WEBSITES · 270 PHOTOGRAPHS · 108 VIDEO CLIPS

About this archive

Source: Città del Mondo, a multimedia CD-ROM series published by Istituto Geografico De Agostini (Novara) at the turn of the millennium. Each disc shipped with a Macromedia Director runtime and bundled videos, photographs and a curated set of city websites captured at the time.

What’s here: for every city, the original Internet Point sites, the Luoghi photographs and the Filmati video clips — nothing else has been added.

What was changed: MPEG-1 clips were re-encoded to MP4 (H.264) for browser playback and are now streamed from a CDN; thumbnails were generated for the galleries; per-city landing pages and section navigation were added. The original kiosk image-maps are still available inside each city under Original view.

© 2000 · Istituto Geografico De Agostini · Novara
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