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A self-guided audio walking tour of old Córdoba and its river, from Roman Corduba to the caliphate and the conquest of 1236. It starts at the Puerta del Puente, the Renaissance gate on the site of a Roman triple gate, and crosses the Roman Bridge, 331 metres long on sixteen arches, to the Torre de la Calahorra, then takes in the rebuilt waterwheel of the Molino de la Albolafia. Back on the city side come Philip II's Royal Stables, the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, from which the conquest of Granada was organised and which later housed the Inquisition, and the tenth-century baths of the caliphal palace. Through the Puerta de Almodóvar the walk enters the Judería: the Synagogue completed in 1315, the Casa de Sefarad, the statue of Maimonides, the craft workshops of the Zoco, the Mudéjar Capilla de San Bartolomé, and the Calleja de las Flores, framing the Mosque-Cathedral's bell tower. It ends east of the Mosque-Cathedral at the Archaeological Museum, built over the seating of Córdoba's Roman theatre, and the Plaza del Potro, with its 1577 colt fountain, the inn Cervantes names in Don Quixote, and the old Hospital de la Caridad that holds the Fine Arts and Julio Romero de Torres museums. The Mosque-Cathedral has its own tour.
17 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 · 287 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 115 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.
Puerta del Puente, Triunfo de San Rafael, Roman Bridge, Torre de la Calahorra, Molino de la Albolafia.
Caballerizas Reales, Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, Baños del Alcázar Califal.
Puerta de Almodóvar, Synagogue of Córdoba, Casa de Sefarad, Plaza de Tiberiades and Maimonides, Zoco Municipal, Capilla de San Bartolomé, Calleja de las Flores, Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba, Plaza del Potro.
Built in the early 1st century AD, 331 metres long, with twelve semicircular and four pointed arches and San Rafael halfway across.
A rebuilt waterwheel beside the bridge that once lifted river water to the Alcázar gardens, and appears on Córdoba's shield.
The fortress-palace ordered in 1328, base for the Granada campaign, later the Inquisition's seat and a civil prison.
The hammam of the Umayyad palace, built between 961 and 976, its vaults pierced by star-shaped skylights.
Completed in 1315 by Isaac Moheb, its prayer hall carved with star patterns and Hebrew verses from the Psalms.
A whitewashed lane of flowerpots, remodelled in the 1950s to frame the bell tower of the Mosque-Cathedral at its end.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 17 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. 17 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 Córdoba — the Judería, the Roman Bridge and the Alcázar, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
17 narration points, including Puerta del Puente, Triunfo de San Rafael, Roman Bridge, Torre de la Calahorra and Molino de la Albolafia. That is about 25 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. 17 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.