Photo: George E. Koronaios (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour inside the fortress of Acrocorinth, the rock above ancient Corinth, from the western gates up to the summit and the spring and back by the south-western tower. The rock was first fortified in the Archaic period as Corinth's acropolis. Its walls were damaged when Mummius sacked Corinth in 146 BC, rebuilt after Julius Caesar refounded the city in 44 BC, and reinforced after the Normans plundered Corinth in 1147; Leon Sgouros held it against the Crusaders until 1210, Mehmed II took it in 1458, and the Venetians held it from 1687 to 1715. The walk passes through the three gates, the outer one of the fifteenth century and the inner two Middle Byzantine, to the small Venetian-era church of Agios Dimitrios, the Ottoman bath and the mosque Ahmed III built after the reconquest of 1715. On the summit stood the Sanctuary of Aphrodite, a small temple by the end of the seventh century BC replaced by a larger one in the fifth; below it the Upper Peirene spring gave the fortress water through its sieges, and the south-western tower served as lookout and cistern. The ancient city below is a separate tour, and Acrocorinth is a long drive from any cruise pier, so for cruise passengers the ship's own excursion is the safer choice.
9 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 · 8 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 4 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.
The outer gate of the first half of the fifteenth century, once reached over a moat by a wooden drawbridge, its walls mixing ancient blocks with later rebuilding.
The innermost of the three western gates, between two towers, the last line before the inner castle.
The mosque Sultan Ahmed III commissioned after the Ottoman reconquest of 1715, on the site of an earlier mosque the Venetians had made a powder magazine.
The goddess's sanctuary on the highest summit, a small temple by the end of the seventh century BC, replaced by a larger cult building in the fifth.
The spring inside the walls, not far below the summit, that gave the fortress a permanent water source through its sieges.
The tower on the south-western hilltop, built as both an observation post over the gulfs and a water store.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 9 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. 9 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 Acrocorinth — the Fortress above Corinth, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
9 narration points, including Sanctuary of Aphrodite, Upper Peirene Spring, First Gate, Second Gate and Third Gate. That is about 11 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. 9 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.