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From http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/behold-a-huge-scale-model-of-ancient-rome-at-its-architectural-peak.html

At the Museum of Roman Culture resides a 1:250 recreation of imperial Rome, known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale, which transports viewers not just through space but time as well. "To commemorate the birth of Augustus (63 BC) two thousand years earlier, Mussolini commissioned a model of Rome as it appeared at the time of Constantine (AD 306-337), when the city had reached its greatest size," says Encyclopedia Romana. Constructed by Italo Gismondi between 1933 and 1937, then extended and restored in the 1990s, it takes as its basis Rodolfo Lanciani's 1901 atlas the Forma Urbis Romae.

Read more about the scale model at http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/behold-a-huge-scale-model-of-ancient-rome-at-its-architectural-peak.html and at http://www.viralspell.com/the-museum-of-roman-civilization-has-created-a-model-of-ancient-rome-in-the-age-of-emperor-constantine-and-it-is-magnificent/, and visit the Museum of Roman Culture's site dedicated to the model at http://www.museociviltaromana.it/it/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/plastico_di_roma_imperiale