Walk the Roman city of Itálica — founded by Scipio Africanus in 206 BC and beautified by Hadrian — with GPS-triggered narrations at the great amphitheatre, the mosaic houses, and the Roman theatre. The birthplace of Trajan and the family home of Hadrian.
Every stop traces back to primary archaeological and heritage records. Not AI-generated guesses. Here's how each narration gets built.
Each stop pulls from OpenStreetMap · 15 features in this old town (the open mapping database used by Apple Maps and Tesla), Wikidata · 7 cross-referenced entries (the peer-reviewed structured-data project), the heritage authority below, and primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against the verified sources above. Anything that can't be supported gets cut.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The nova urbs — the grand district Hadrian lavished on his ancestral home, with one of the largest amphitheatres in the Roman world and a grid of luxury mosaic houses.
The vetus urbs beneath modern Santiponce — the original colony of Scipio's veterans, its Roman theatre, the Traianeum, and a temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Among the four largest amphitheatres in the Roman Empire, seating some 25,000 — a gift from Hadrian, with its arena pit and tiered cavea still standing.
A luxury domus laid out around a colonnaded courtyard, named for its celebrated floor mosaic teeming with songbirds and waterfowl.
Named for the mosaic of seven deities who gave their names to the days of the week — the planets of the Roman week made into a floor.
A grand house preserving a sweeping marine mosaic — Neptune amid a teeming sea of fish, dolphins, and mythical creatures.
The colonnaded temple Hadrian raised to the deified Trajan, the emperor born at Italica — the monumental heart of the new city.
Set into the slope of the old town, the theatre where the colony of Scipio's veterans gathered, half-buried beneath the streets of Santiponce.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 13 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 — history, architecture, and stories brought to life. 13 narration points across the full tour.
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 significant point across the Roman city. Major monuments get deep dives; the mosaic houses get focused stories.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
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.
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 ~50 minutes total, but you walk at your own pace. 13 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Your access lasts 30 days from purchase, so revisit as often as you like.
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.