Piața Unirii
A miniature of Timișoara's old square that you can walk through in the browser, from the cathedral steps to the fountain, from noon to night in two minutes. Eighteen buildings from their mapped footprints, the plague column from a real 3D scan, and a guide called Mira who knows where to look.
A real square. Small enough to walk.
Piața Unirii is the Baroque heart of Timișoara, in Romania. We rebuilt it from mapped footprints and dated photographs, then put it on the web, where anyone can walk it at their own pace with nothing to install.
From noon to night, in two minutes.
The sun, the sky and fifteen street lamps share one clock, so the square turns from noon to night and back while you walk.
Walk it.
Keys on a laptop, a thumbstick on a phone. Run, jump and take the steps down into the fountain: the walls, the benches and the fountain's bowl all hold you.
A guide who knows where to look.
Mira, a fictional local, asks for help with a photo: a curved green front beside a raspberry neighbour. Frame it, and Casa Brück goes into your journal with its story.
Every façade from a source.
The buildings stand on their OpenStreetMap footprints. Heights, windows and signs are estimated from dated photographs, and every building's sources are written down.
No rush. No right route.
| Made by | The team at Bolted. |
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| Platform | The web, on desktop and phone, live since 9 October 2026. Free, with no account; your journal stays on your device. |
| Stack | Blender and Python for the square, React Three Fiber and Three.js in the browser. Rapier physics in a WebAssembly worker, Draco geometry in 107 chunks, built with Vite and served from Cloudflare Pages. |
| Credits | Holy Trinity Monument scan by Cyberscanning, CC BY-NC 4.0, adapted for scale and materials. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Mira and the people on the square are fictional; café names and signs belong to their owners. A stylised reconstruction, not a survey. |
| Links | piataunirii.com |
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