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A self-guided audio walk north through the Historic Centre of Macao, where Portuguese traders settled in 1557 beside the Chinese town. It begins at A-Ma Temple on the slopes of Barra Hill, with halls dating from 1605 to 1828, then passes the Moorish Barracks of 1874, Lilau Square and its spring, the Mandarin's House of the Zheng family and St Lawrence's Church, where sailors' families prayed on the steps facing the sea. Up at St Augustine's Square stand St Joseph's Seminary and Church, the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library, the Dom Pedro V Theatre and St Augustine's Church, before the Leal Senado, Sam Kai Vui Kun, Senado Square with its wave-pattern paving, the Holy House of Mercy of 1569, the Cathedral and Lou Kau Mansion. The last part runs by St Dominic's Church to the granite façade of the Ruins of St Paul's, burned in 1835, Na Tcha Temple and a stretch of the old city walls, then Mount Fortress, St Anthony's Church, Casa Garden and the Old Protestant Cemetery of 1821.
24 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 · 363 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 39 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.
A-Ma Temple, Moorish Barracks, Lilau Square, Mandarin's House, St Lawrence's Church.
St Joseph's Seminary and Church, Sir Robert Ho Tung Library, Dom Pedro V Theatre, St Augustine's Church, Leal Senado Building, Sam Kai Vui Kun, Senado Square, Holy House of Mercy, The Cathedral, Lou Kau Mansion.
St Dominic's Church, Company of Jesus Square, Ruins of St Paul's, Na Tcha Temple, Section of the Old City Walls of Macau, Mount Fortress, St Anthony's Church, Casa Garden, Old Protestant Cemetery.
The hillside temple to the sea goddess A-Ma, built up from 1605 to 1828, with a carved sailing ship on a stone by the entrance.
The Zheng family compound stretching over 120 metres along Barra Street, with mother-of-pearl window panels in its inner rooms.
The neoclassical seat of Macao's municipal government, with azulejo panels on the stairs and a carved wooden library upstairs.
Macao's civic square, paved in 1992 with black-and-white Portuguese stone laid in waves, facing the Leal Senado.
The granite façade of the Church of Mater Dei, built 1602 to 1640 and burned in 1835, carved with Chinese lions and inscriptions.
The fort built with the Jesuits between 1617 and 1626, home of Macao's governors until 1740, now holding the Macao Museum.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 24 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. 24 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 Macau — the Historic Centre, from A-Ma Temple to Monte Fort, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
24 narration points, including A-Ma Temple, Moorish Barracks, Lilau Square, Mandarin's House and St Lawrence's Church. That is about 38 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. 24 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.