A self-guided audio walking tour of the flat top of Mount Filerimos, above the town of Ialysos on the north-west coast of Rhodes, a drive or taxi ride from Rhodes town. At the entrance it tells the story of the hill: the acropolis of ancient Ialysos, one of the three Dorian cities of Rhodes with Lindos and Kamiros, the family of the boxer Diagoras, whom Pindar celebrated in 464 BC, the founding of the city of Rhodes in 408 BC, and the Byzantines and the Knights of Saint John, who held Rhodes from 1309 to 1522. It tells the Doric fountain of the fourth century BC from the top of the steps, and visits the foundations of the temple of Athena Polias and Zeus Polieus and the church of Our Lady of Filerimos, of the early fourteenth century. At the east end it reads the castle, and west of the temple the small underground chapel of Agios Georgios Chostos, Saint George the Buried, which began as a Byzantine crypt. It ends along the Way of the Cross, laid out in the Italian period, at the great cross, rebuilt in the 1990s after the Italian cross of the 1930s did not survive the Second World War.
8 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.
Filerimos entrance, The Doric Fountain, Temple of Athena Polias and Zeus Polieus, Church of Our Lady of Filerimos.
Castle of Filerimos.
Agios Georgios Chostos, Way of the Cross, The great cross.
The acropolis of ancient Ialysos, one of the three Dorian cities of Rhodes, with worship on the plateau going back at least to the ninth century BC.
An arcaded fountain of the fourth century BC among plane trees on a shelf below the plateau, told from the top of the closed stair.
The foundations of the temple of the city's guardian gods, set to the points of the compass, with column drums still carrying coloured stucco.
The church of the Virgin of Filerimos from the first years of the Knights of Saint John on Rhodes, with two chapels added in the fifteenth century.
Saint George the Buried, a small underground chapel that began as a Byzantine crypt cut into the bedrock around a sacred fountain.
The paved path of the Italian period, with fourteen stations of the Passion, running west under trees to the great cross.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 8 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. 8 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 Ialysos — the Acropolis on Mount Filerimos, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
8 narration points, including Agios Georgios Chostos, Filerimos entrance, The Doric Fountain, Temple of Athena Polias and Zeus Polieus and Church of Our Lady of Filerimos. That is about 10 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. 8 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.