Photo: Jorge Láscar from Australia (CC BY 2.0)
A self-guided audio tour of Aegina that begins on foot in Aegina town by the harbour and continues by car across the island. In the town it starts at the sailors' chapel of Agios Nikolaos Thalassinos at the harbour entrance and visits the Markellos Tower, the Kyverneio, renovated in 1827 for Ioannis Kapodistrias and the government, the Metropolis of 1806, used as a parliament in 1827 and 1828, the Eynardeio of 1830 and the Orphanage built in 1828 and 1829 for children orphaned by the War of Independence, when Aegina was the first seat of government of the new Greek state. Along the waterfront are the Archaeological Museum founded by Kapodistrias in 1829, the prehistoric settlement of Kolona and its Doric Temple of Apollo. Inland come the Omorfi Ekklisia with its inscription of 1289, the monastery of the Holy Trinity that Saint Nektarios founded in 1904 and the great church below it, Paleochora, the hidden medieval capital built out of sight of the sea, with its surviving churches, the fortified Chrysoleontissa monastery, the sanctuary of Zeus Hellanios on the island's highest mountain and the Temple of Aphaia, generally dated to about 500 BC. Visitors arriving by ferry should keep an eye on their return sailing; for cruise passengers the ship's own excursion is the safer choice.
19 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 · 155 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 19 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.
Agios Nikolaos Thalassinos, Markellos Tower, Kyverneio, Metropolis of Aegina, Eynardeio, Kapodistrias Orphanage, Archaeological Museum of Aegina, Kolona Prehistoric Settlement, Temple of Apollo at Kolona.
Omorfi Ekklisia.
Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Church of Agios Nektarios, Paleochora, Agios Georgios Katholikos, Taxiarchis Church, Paleochora, Agios Dionysios Church, Paleochora, Chrysoleontissa Monastery, Sanctuary of Zeus Hellanios, Temple of Aphaia.
The whitewashed twin-domed chapel at the end of the main boat dock at the harbour entrance, paid for by Aegina's sailors and dedicated to their patron saint.
The two-storey house of 1803 renovated in 1827 as the residence and offices of Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias and his government.
The Doric temple on the hill of the prehistoric acropolis, its columns visible from the sea, its pediments of Parian marble.
The convent Saint Nektarios founded in 1904 on the site of a small Byzantine monastery, above the great church built for his pilgrims.
The medieval capital built on a hill that could not be seen from the sea, a refuge from pirate raids, where only a few churches survived Barbarossa's burning of 1537.
The temple of a local goddess on a terrace in the island's north-east, generally dated to about 500 BC, of local poros with marble sculpture.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 19 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. 19 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 Aegina — the First Capital, the Saint and the Temple of Aphaia, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
19 narration points, including Agios Nikolaos Thalassinos, Markellos Tower, Kyverneio, Metropolis of Aegina and Eynardeio. That is about 26 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 ~4 hours with the drives total, but you walk at your own pace. 19 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.