A self-guided audio tour of Caere, the Etruscan city at Cerveteri, in two parts: the Necropoli della Banditaccia, then the old town, a short drive away. It starts on the Via Sepolcrale Principale, the funerary road lined with tumuli of the sixth century BCE, in a burial ground that grew from a ninth-century BCE nucleus into streets and squares and was used until the first century BCE. In the necropolis it visits tombs built like Etruscan houses: the Tomba dei Capitelli, with its carved ceiling beams and Aeolic capitals, the Grande Tumulo II, a drum about 40 metres across holding four tombs, the Tomba dei Rilievi of the Matuna family, with its painted stucco reliefs, the Tomba della Casetta, the Tumulo della Cornice, the two-coloured Tumulo Policroma and the Tumulo Scudo e Sedie. It follows the Via degli Inferi, cut deep into the tuff, to the Necropoli del Laghetto and the Tomb of the Five Chairs. In the old town it reads the Vigna Parrocchiale excavations, the Museo Nazionale Cerite in a thirteenth-century castle, and Santa Maria Maggiore, and ends at the Regolini-Galassi tomb in the Sorbo necropolis.
16 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 · 52 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 12 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.
Via Sepolcrale Principale, Tomba dei Capitelli, Grande Tumulo II.
Tomba dei Rilievi, Tomba della Casetta, Tumulo della Cornice, Tumulo Policroma, Tumulo R. Mengarelli, Via degli Inferi, Necropoli del Laghetto, Tumulo Scudo e Sedie.
Tomba delle 5 Sedie, Area archeologica Vigna Parrocchiale, Museo Nazionale Cerite "Claudia Ruspoli", Santa Maria Maggiore, Sorbo Necropolis - Regolini-Galassi tomb.
The funerary road of the Banditaccia, lined with sixth-century BCE tumuli, descending to become the Via degli Inferi, the Road of the Underworld.
A family tomb laid out like an Etruscan house, with raised bands on the ceiling copying wooden beams and two Aeolic capitals cut from the rock.
A monumental drum cut from the tufa, about 40 metres across, holding four tombs built roughly a generation apart for an aristocratic family.
The Matuna family's tomb, its walls and columns covered with painted stucco reliefs of weapons and objects of daily and religious life.
The Tomb of the Five Chairs, made for an aristocratic couple, with carved seats, thrones, tables and an altar.
The museum in a thirteenth-century castle with Etruscan wall in its structure, given to the Italian state by the Ruspoli family in 1967.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 16 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. 16 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 Cerveteri — the Etruscan Tombs of the Banditaccia, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
16 narration points, including Via Sepolcrale Principale, Tomba dei Capitelli, Grande Tumulo II, Tomba dei Rilievi and Tomba della Casetta. That is about 21 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. 16 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.