Photo: Bernard Gagnon (CC0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of Alberobello's two trulli quarters and the streets between them; the trulli are private homes and shops, seen from the street. It begins in the Piazza del Popolo, where the decree of 1797 that freed the town from the Acquaviva d'Aragona counts and made it a royal town was announced, beside the Municipal Palace of 1863, and looks out over the roofs from the Belvedere Santa Lucia. It passes the hunting lodge Gian Girolamo II Acquaviva built in 1635 and Largo Martellotta, once a rainwater basin and the town market since a proposal of 1854, then climbs through Rione Monti, the larger quarter, with 1,030 trulli by UNESCO's count, built dry-stone of local limestone, past the Trullo Siamese and its legend of two brothers to the church of Sant'Antonio, built in 1926 and 1927. Back across town it visits the Casa d'Amore, built in 1797 when building with mortar was first allowed, Casa Pezzolla, home of the counts' physician, and Rione Aia Piccola, with 590 trulli around its old threshing floor, and ends at Antonio Curri's Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian and the two-storey Trullo Sovrano, about 14 metres high.
12 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 · 32 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 3 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.
Piazza del Popolo, Belvedere Santa Lucia, Acquaviva Hunting Lodge, Largo Martellotta.
Rione Monti, Trullo Siamese, Church of Sant'Antonio.
Casa d'Amore, Casa Pezzolla, Rione Aia Piccola, Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian, Trullo Sovrano.
The civic square where the 1797 decree that ended Alberobello's feudal subjection and made it a royal town was publicly announced.
The larger of the two trulli quarters, with 1,030 trulli by UNESCO's count, dry-stone buildings of local limestone set straight on the bedrock.
The divided trullo in Rione Monti, built for two households, its story of two brothers told as legend.
The church built in 1926 and 1927 at the highest point of Rione Monti, at the end of Via Monte Pertica.
Francesco D'Amore's house of 1797, built with mortar when the settlement became a royal town and stable buildings were no longer prohibited.
The two-storey trullo behind the basilica, about 14 metres high, built as the residence of the family of the priest Cataldo Perta.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 12 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. 12 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 Alberobello — the Trulli Town, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
12 narration points, including Piazza del Popolo, Belvedere Santa Lucia, Acquaviva Hunting Lodge, Largo Martellotta and Rione Monti. That is about 18 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. 12 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.