Photo: Alessio Maffeis from Stockholm, Sweden (CC BY 2.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of Capri, from the harbour at Marina Grande to Tiberius's palace on Monte Tiberio. It starts where ferries and hydrofoils dock and cruise tenders land, the harbour through which Rome came to Capri: Augustus took the island from Naples in 29 BC, giving Ischia in exchange, and Tiberius later ruled the empire from here. Below the town are San Costanzo, the island's cathedral from 987 to 1560, and the remains of the imperial Palazzo a Mare. In the town the walk crosses the Piazzetta to Santo Stefano, the Ignazio Cerio Museum and the Grand Hotel Quisisana, which began as a sanatorium, and goes on to the Carthusian Certosa di San Giacomo, founded between 1371 and 1374, the Gardens of Augustus laid out by Friedrich Alfred Krupp, and Via Krupp, cut into the rock between 1900 and 1902 with eight hairpin bends down to Marina Piccola. From the Belvedere di Tragara it reads the three Faraglioni, then passes Casa Malaparte, the Grotta di Matermania, the Arco Naturale and Villa Lysis on the way up to Villa Jovis, its lighthouse and the church of Santa Maria del Soccorso at the island's eastern edge.
20 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 · 76 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 15 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.
Marina Grande, Chiesa di San Costanzo, Palazzo a Mare, Piazza Umberto I, Church of Santo Stefano, Ignazio Cerio Museum, Grand Hotel Quisisana.
Certosa di San Giacomo, Gardens of Augustus, Via Krupp, Marina Piccola, Cimitero Acattolico.
The Faraglioni from Punta Tragara, Casa Malaparte, Grotta di Matermania, Arco Naturale, Villa Lysis, Villa Jovis, Tiberius's Lighthouse, Santa Maria del Soccorso.
Capri's principal port, where ferries and hydrofoils dock and cruise tenders land; the permanent docks date from 1928.
The Carthusian charterhouse Giacomo Arcucci founded between 1371 and 1374, its vaults built to carry rainwater into channels and tanks.
The path cut into the rock between 1900 and 1902 for Friedrich Alfred Krupp, dropping more than 100 metres in eight hairpin bends to Marina Piccola.
The three limestone stacks seen from the Belvedere di Tragara: Stella, still joined to the island, the arched Faraglione di Mezzo and Scopolo.
A limestone arch left by the erosion and collapse of a grotto, its vault spanning about 12 metres.
Tiberius's palace on Monte Tiberio, 334 metres above the sea, its water collected in four large central cisterns.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 20 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. 20 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 Capri — the Town, the Certosa and Tiberius's Villa, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
20 narration points, including Marina Grande, Palazzo a Mare, Piazza Umberto I, Certosa di San Giacomo and Via Krupp. That is about 30 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. 20 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.