Etruscan tombs in Lazio. Greek temples at Paestum. Roman villas across Campania. Norman castles in Puglia. Lombard churches in the Po Valley. Italy's archaeological record is denser than any other country in Europe, and most of it is not in the guidebook. The Italy app catalogues it. Late 2026 launch.
"You are standing on a Roman road. You are looking at a Norman tower. The plaque says nothing because the plaque does not exist."
Italy is the densest archaeological country in Europe. The Vatican Museums alone hold more antiquities than most national collections. But the same density that makes Italy unmatched for travelers also makes it impossible to navigate. The Colosseum is in every guidebook. The Etruscan necropolis at Cerveteri, twenty minutes outside Rome, is in almost none. The Greek temples of Paestum are in some, but the Roman amphitheatre of Capua, the second-largest in the empire, is in fewer.
Atika: Italy Guides catalogues the full record from MiBACT (the Ministero della Cultura) registries, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and academic publications. Etruscan, Greek-colonial, Roman, Lombard, Byzantine, Norman, medieval, Renaissance. Every period that left material remains on the peninsula and the islands. The app is in development now, projected late 2026, after the Greece launch settles.
Italy is twenty regions, from Aosta in the Alps to Sicily in the Mediterranean. The archaeological density varies, but every region carries a record: Etruscan, Greek-colonial, Roman, medieval, Renaissance. Below is a rough projection of site counts by macro-region, finalized when the data work completes.
Three representative entries. The full catalogue will cover ~15,000 sites at launch, every entry showing period, type, region, access notes, and confidence score.
The largest Etruscan necropolis in the Mediterranean. Mound tombs carved into living tufa, arranged like a city of the dead. Twenty minutes from the Rome airport and almost no tourist goes.
Three Greek Doric temples, better preserved than anything still standing in Greece itself. Founded as Poseidonia by colonists from Sybaris around 600 BCE. Ninety minutes south of Naples.
The octagonal hunting castle of Frederick II Hohenstaufen, built around 1240. Eight towers, eight rooms per floor, geometric obsession. The crown of medieval Apulia.
The Italy app is in development now, after the Greece launch settles. Founding-week members get TestFlight access two weeks before public launch, plus Pro at €19.99/year locked for life.
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Late 2026, after Greece launches and stabilises. The data work for Italy is more complex than Greece or Israel because there is no single national archaeological registry; we are merging MiBACT regional records with OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.
Sequencing was Greece first (smallest data quality gap), Israel second (clean national registry from the IAA), Italy third (most fragmented data sources, largest engineering lift). Apple inverted the first two by approving Israel first; Italy still comes last in the build order.
MiBACT (Ministero della Cultura) records, the Vincoli in Rete database, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, and academic publications. Every site will have a confidence score and visible source provenance. Multi-period coverage from Etruscan and Greek-colonial through Roman, medieval, and Renaissance.
Yes. All twenty regions, plus Sardinia and Sicily. From the alpine valleys of Aosta to the Greek temples of Sicily. The Vatican is its own state but its public archaeological holdings will be referenced where relevant.
Etruscan tombs, Greek-colonial temples, Roman cities and villas, Lombard and Byzantine churches, Norman castles, medieval monasteries, Renaissance villas. Every period that left material remains on the peninsula and the islands.
Yes. Like Greece and Israel, the full Italian database will bundle on the device. Useful in the Apennines, in Sicilian villages, on Sardinian back roads where signal is unreliable.
Yes. Italian is the second most important language to land for this app, ahead of English in priority for the Italian App Store storefront. The Italian-language landing page will go up when the Italy app is closer to launch.
Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Lombard, Norman, Renaissance. Approximately fifteen thousand sites in your pocket. Proximity alerts so you do not drive past them. Offline so it works in the village without signal.