Photo: Ingo Mehling (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio tour of three megalithic sites west of Évora, visited by car with a short walk at each. It starts at the Cromeleque dos Almendres, around ninety-five granite stones on an east-facing slope, raised in stages during the Neolithic, from a small group of three concentric circles to a much larger enclosure of two ellipses to the west, and abandoned around three thousand years before Christ. It tells how the stones were found again in the mid-1960s during fieldwork for the geological map of Portugal, excavated and set upright, and what the circle may have been for: a meeting place, a place of ritual, a farming calendar or an observatory, interpretations that are still disputed. A second stop reads the older eastern enclosure, where the carving is clearest. It goes on to the Menir dos Almendres, a single standing stone that marks the direction of a solstice sunrise seen from the circle, and ends at the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro, a great dolmen of huge granite slabs, classified as a National Monument in 1971.
4 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 (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 5 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.
Around ninety-five granite stones raised in stages during the Neolithic, found again in the mid-1960s and set back upright on their sockets.
The oldest, eastern part of the circle, where the carving on the stones is at its clearest.
A single granite standing stone, about three and a half to four metres tall, marking the direction of a solstice sunrise from the circle.
A great dolmen near Valverde, a communal tomb of huge granite slabs, classified as a National Monument in 1971.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 4 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. 4 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 The Almendres Megaliths — Stone Circle, Menhir and the Great Dolmen of Zambujeiro, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
4 narration points, including Cromeleque dos Almendres, Recinto oriental do Cromeleque, Anta Grande do Zambujeiro and Menir dos Almendres. That is about 4 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. 4 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.