Walk through Melilla — Old City Fortress with GPS-triggered narrations at every significant site. Five Walls, Five Civilisations.
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 (the open mapping database used by Apple Maps and Tesla), Wikidata (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.
Five concentric layers of fortification, each built by a different civilisation. Walk inward through 2,500 years of military engineering.
Bastions, batteries, and the rock-cut moat. The engineering of frontier defense from cannon to rifled guns.
Church, museum, cave shrine. The human story of living in a fortress on the edge of empire.
The sea gate — pass through five layers of fortification built by five civilisations.
Rounded bastions designed to absorb cannon fire, replacing medieval square towers after gunpowder changed warfare.
A natural cave with Neolithic tools, Phoenician offerings, and early Christian worship. Possibly the oldest sacred space in Melilla.
The innermost citadel — a fortress within a fortress within a fortress. The thickest walls and narrowest lanes.
Massive bastion with multi-level firing galleries. Below it, the rock drops straight to the sea.
The highest point of the headland. On clear days, Spain's smallest territory is visible — a rock connected to Morocco by a sandbar.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 11 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. 11 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 Melilla la Vieja fortress. Major sites get deep dives; smaller ones 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 ~1.5 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 11 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.