Hometown

The story of any town

Type a town, a village or a street, or use your location: who held its ground in every age, what happened around it, who came from there, old photographs and words written about it.

Nothing you type or share is stored. A spot is rounded to about a kilometre before anything is asked about it.

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An idea, a mistake in the history, something that doesn’t work: every message is read.

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Sent with what is on this screen (above), its address and the theme. Your browser, device, languages and rough location are read from the request itself, as any website receives them. How it is kept: privacy.