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A self-guided audio walking tour of Castello, Cagliari's walled hilltop quarter, climbing from the port by the stairs of the Bastione di Saint Remy, the promenade and panoramic terrace the city made from old bastions, with the Passeggiata Coperta, inaugurated in 1902 as a banquet hall inside the former Bastione della Zecca. Through the Porta dei Leoni it reaches Palazzo Boyl of 1840, with the Pisan Torre dell'Aquila inside it, Palazzo Belgrano, the seat of the university, and the Torre dell'Elefante, a Pisan tower of the early fourteenth century. On the western side stand the Spanish Bastione di Santa Croce, built from 1552 to 1578, the church of Santa Croce on the site of the former synagogue of the Jewish quarter, and the Savoy barracks known as the Ghetto degli Ebrei; then Santa Maria del Monte, the Purissima, the Torre di San Pancrazio, built in 1305 as the northern gateway, and Porta Cristina of 1825. In the Cittadella dei Musei come the National Archaeological Museum, the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Clemente Susini's anatomical waxes of 1803 to 1805 and Stefano Cardu's collection of Siamese and Asian art. The walk ends at Palazzo Regio, the viceregal seat from 1337, the Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Cecilia, Palazzo di Città and Piazza Carlo Alberto.
21 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 · 166 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 47 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.
Bastione di Saint Remy, Passeggiata Coperta Bastione di Saint Remy, Porta dei Leoni, Palazzo Boyl, Palazzo Belgrano, Torre dell'Elefante, Bastione di Santa Croce, Church of Santa Croce.
Ghetto degli Ebrei, Chiesa di Santa Maria del Monte, Chiesa della Purissima, Torre di San Pancrazio, Porta Cristina, National Archaeological Museum, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Museo delle cere anatomiche "Clemente Susini", Museo civico d'arte siamese "Stefano Cardu".
Palazzo Regio, Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Cecilia, Palazzo di Città, Piazza Carlo Alberto.
The monumental stairs and terrace that turned obsolete bastions into a public promenade joining the lower city to Castello.
The Pisan defensive tower of the early fourteenth century on the south-western side of Castello, an entrance from Stampace.
The church on the site of Cagliari's former synagogue, in the old Jewish quarter, converted after the expulsion of the Jews around 1500.
The tower the Pisans commissioned in 1305 from Giovanni Capula, the fortified northern gateway to Castello, built of white Bonaria limestone.
Sixty-four wax anatomical models made by Clemente Susini in Florence between 1803 and 1805 from dissections by Francesco Antonio Boi.
The church of Santa Maria, rebuilt from 1254 inside the walls of Castel di Castro and made Cagliari's cathedral in 1313.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 21 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. 21 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 Cagliari — the Castello Quarter on its Hill, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
21 narration points, including Bastione di Saint Remy, Palazzo Boyl, Torre dell'Elefante, Bastione di Santa Croce and Torre di San Pancrazio. That is about 34 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. 21 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.