Photo: Norbert Nagel (CC BY-SA 3.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour round the walled old town of Évora, from its main square to the cathedral and the Roman temple and out to the aqueduct; the Almendres stone circle outside the city has its own tour. It starts on the Praça do Giraldo with the story of the town: Roman Ebora, the Visigoths, Muslim Yabura, its taking for the Christians by Geraldo Sem Pavor in 1165 and the kings who made it a favourite residence, and the square that saw markets, bullfights, executions and the autos-da-fé of the Inquisition. It goes through the old Jewish quarter to São Francisco and its Capela dos Ossos, the Palácio de Dom Manuel, the sham ruins in the public garden and the Igreja da Graça with its four colossal seated figures. On the acropolis it visits the Sé, its Gothic cloister, the Museu de Évora in the old bishops' palace, the Templo Romano and the Igreja dos Lóios. It ends past the Palácio dos Duques de Cadaval, the Colégio do Espírito Santo, the Casas Pintadas, the Torre de Sisebuto and the Roman baths, through the Arco de Dona Isabel to the Aqueduto da Água de Prata built under King João III.
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 · 143 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 31 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.
Praça do Giraldo, Vestígios da Sinagoga de Évora, Igreja de São Francisco, Capela dos Ossos, Palácio de Dom Manuel, Ruínas Fingidas, Igreja da Graça.
Largo das Portas de Moura, Sé de Évora, Claustro da Sé, Museu de Évora, Templo Romano, Igreja dos Lóios.
Palácio dos Duques de Cadaval, Colégio do Espírito Santo, Casas Pintadas, Torre de Sisebuto, Termas Romanas de Évora, Arco de Dona Isabel, Aqueduto da Água de Prata.
The heart of Évora, scene of markets, bullfights, executions and autos-da-fé, with the marble fountain begun in 1571.
The Chapel of Bones beside São Francisco, built by the friars from exhumed remains to make visitors reflect on the shortness of life.
A royal church of the 1530s whose facade carries four colossal seated granite figures, the Meninos da Graça.
The fortified cathedral on the city's highest point, its battlements and unequal towers visible from afar.
The granite podium and Corinthian columns with Estremoz marble capitals of a temple of Évora's Roman forum.
The aqueduct built under King João III by Francisco de Arruda to bring spring water across the country into the city.
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 Évora — the Roman Temple, the Cathedral and the Chapel of Bones, 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 Praça do Giraldo, Igreja de São Francisco, Capela dos Ossos, Palácio de Dom Manuel and Sé de Évora. That is about 27 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.