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A self-guided audio walking tour of A Coruña, from the port round the Cidade Vella and along the sea front to the Tower of Hercules. It starts at the Galerías da Mariña, the glazed galleries built in two phases between 1870 and 1884 after the walls on that side came down, and the Jesuit church of San Xurxo, and crosses the Praza de María Pita, laid out in the mid-nineteenth century to join the old town to the Pescadería, with the city hall on its north side. In the Cidade Vella it visits the Romanesque church of Santiago, the house of Emilia Pardo Bazán that is now the Real Academia Galega, the Praza de Azcárraga, once the flour market, Santa María do Campo, where sailors came to give thanks after a voyage, María Pita's house, the Poor Clares' square of Santa Bárbara, San Domingos, rebuilt inside the walls after the English attack of 1589, the Xardín de San Carlos inside an old fortress, and the walls begun after Alfonso IX repopulated the town in 1208. Then it follows the sea front past the Castelo de San Antón, begun in 1587 on an island at the mouth of the bay, the English Cemetery of 1868, the memorial at O Campo da Rata to those executed under the Civil War and the dictatorship, Manolo Paz's Menhires pola Paz and Xosé Cid's Breogán, to the Torre de Hércules, a Roman lighthouse that still works and was inscribed as World Heritage in 2009.
18 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 268 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 24 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Galerías da Mariña, Igrexa de San Xurxo, Praza de María Pita.
Igrexa de Santiago, Real Academia Galega, Praza de Azcárraga, Colexiata de Santa María do Campo, Casa Museo María Pita, Praza de Santa Bárbara, Igrexa de San Domingos, Xardín de San Carlos, Murallas da Coruña, Castelo de San Antón.
Cemiterio Inglés, O Campo da Rata, Menhires pola Paz, Estatua de Breogán, Torre de Hércules.
The long row of white-framed glass galleries facing the harbour, built from 1870 to 1884 to shelter the rooms from the Atlantic wind and rain while letting in the sun.
The porticoed square planned in the mid-nineteenth century over the old wall to join the Cidade Vella to the Pescadería, with the city hall on its north side.
The Romanesque church in the Cidade Vella, once dedicated to the pilgrims who came to Compostela by sea.
The Dominicans' Baroque church, rebuilt inside the walls after their old convent was destroyed in the English attack of 1589, and opened in 1613.
The artillery fortress Philip II ordered in 1587 on a small island at the entrance to the bay, to guard the port.
The Roman lighthouse on its rock at the harbour entrance, generally dated to the late first or early second century AD, still working and World Heritage since 2009.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 18 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 18 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in A Coruña — the Old Town, the Harbour and the Tower of Hercules, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
18 narration points, including Praza de María Pita, Igrexa de Santiago, Xardín de San Carlos, Castelo de San Antón and Torre de Hércules. That is about 24 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 18 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.