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A self-guided audio walk through the whole story of Málaga, starting where the cruise ships dock. It begins at La Farola, the lighthouse, and Muelle Uno, then the bullring and the English Cemetery, and offers the climb to Gibralfaro, the fourteenth-century Nasrid castle that was the last stronghold of Muslim Málaga in the siege of 1487. Back down the Paseo del Parque, it reaches the hillside where the Alcazaba stands above the Roman Theatre, found in 1951, whose stone was carried up into the fortress. From Plaza de la Merced, where Picasso was born on 25 October 1881, it goes to the cathedral the city calls La Manquita, the one-armed, for the tower it never finished, through the lanes of the old centre to Calle Larios, built between 1887 and 1891, and the Atarazanas market behind the marble arch of the Nasrid shipyard.
30 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 · 603 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 205 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.
La Farola de Málaga, Muelle Uno, Plaza de Toros de La Malagueta, English Cemetery, Hospital Noble, Castillo de Gibralfaro, Coracha, Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Paseo del Parque, Palmeral de las Sorpresas.
Palacio de la Aduana, Alcazaba, Roman Theatre, Museo Picasso Málaga, Iglesia de Santiago, Plaza de la Merced, Picasso birthplace, Teatro Cervantes, Abadía de Santa Ana, Málaga Cathedral.
Iglesia del Sagrario, Palacio Episcopal, Plaza de la Constitución, Pasaje de Chinitas, Iglesia de los Santos Mártires, Iglesia de San Juan, Calle Marqués de Larios, Mercado Central de Atarazanas, Alameda Principal, Plaza de la Marina.
The fourteenth-century Nasrid castle that was the last stronghold of Muslim Málaga in 1487.
Built under Augustus at the foot of the hill, buried and forgotten until 1951, its stone carried up into the Moorish fortress above.
The eleventh-century Moorish fortress on the hill, built in part with columns and capitals taken from the Roman theatre below.
The house on Plaza de la Merced where Pablo Picasso was born on 25 October 1881.
La Manquita, the one-armed: why the cathedral has only one tower is where the story divides.
The city's market, entered through the marble horseshoe arch of the Nasrid shipyard.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 30 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. 30 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 Málaga — from Phoenician Malaka to the Port City, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
30 narration points, including Muelle Uno, Coracha, Paseo del Parque, Palmeral de las Sorpresas and Palacio de la Aduana. That is about 68 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 ~3½ hours, including the optional climb to Gibralfaro total, but you walk at your own pace. 30 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.