ROMA is an ancient Roman themed land within the online world of Second Life® (SL).

In ROMA you can visit a virtual reconstruction of an ancient Roman city and its landscape. You can do many things there, including socialize, shop, play games, attend events, and learn about the ancient world.

It has a very active citizenry, with over a thousand members, over twenty associated groups, and over a hundred different attractions which are open to all visitors.

It is the first and oldest Roman themed land inside SL.

Lucretia the barmaid in the Pompeii Tavern

Want to get started?

• If you do not yet have an SL account, you can find out how to access ROMA by visiting our Accessing ROMA pages.


• If you are already inside SL, here is the ROMA SLurl.

Segull near the ROMA Boat Docks

Tour ROMA
We have prepared ten short tours of the estate to show visitors what ROMA has to offer and how to navigate the land. These can be found on our Tourism page.

There are also a few video tours on our Media page.

Drive chariots! Ride horses! Sail Roman boats! Find out about how to get around the expansive estate on the ROMA Transit Page.

The ROMA Estate
(Touch a blue link to see where a sim is located on the map to the left)

The ROMA Estate is comprised of eight connected sims (or "regions"). ⇐ROMA is the anchor, where most of the structures can be found.

To the east is the ⇐ROMA Subura where some Citizens are able to construct and live in their own Roman style houses.

To the north, outside the city walls, is ⇐ROMA Transtiberim, a rural land of hills, mountains, forests, and rivers that also contains the suburban settlement of Ostia.

To the east of ROMA Transtiberim is ⇐ROMA Maritima, a mainly ocean sim where visitors can sail boats and enjoy other water pursuits.

Further east is ⇐ROMA Diania, a private sim owned and built by Tonina Rodenberger and her friends. They have opened it to the public and it is part of the ROMA Estate.

⇐ROMA Insula is a private sim owned and built by the avatars Lef Leven and Popea Heron for their main stores ARS AVETE & ARS TOGA.

⇐ROMA Vinovium and ⇐ROMA Vicus house a full scale reconstruction of the Roman fort at Binchester and its adjacent civilian settlement. They are a virtual world presence of the real world Binchester excavations, sponsored by Stanford University, Durham University, and Durham County Council.

Rules and More Info
The ROMA Twelve Tables are the laws of conduct for everyone who visits ROMA. You can read them here online, or by looking under the land info window on the 'Covenant' tab.

If you wish to roleplay in ROMA, be sure to read the ROMA Roleplay Rules page.

You can also keep up with all ROMA info on our ROMA Citizens Blog and Twitter Feed.

You can find all of the external links for websites associated with ROMA on our ROMA Links page.

If you want to get involved with the ROMA Community, check out the Cursus Honorum page detailing the many ways to join us.