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A self-guided audio walk through the Centro Histórico of Mexico City, the Spanish city laid over Tenochtitlan. From the Zócalo, built over the Mexica sacred precinct, with the Metropolitan Cathedral, begun in 1573 and finished in 1813, the Palacio Nacional and Diego Rivera's staircase murals, and the Nacional Monte de Piedad on the site of the Palace of Axayácatl, to the Templo Mayor, excavated after electrical workers uncovered the Coyolxauhqui stone in 1978, and its museum. North to the Plaza de Santo Domingo and its public scribes, Rivera's 235 fresco panels at the Secretaría de Educación Pública and the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso; then west along Calle Madero past La Profesa, the Palacio de Iturbide, the tiled Casa de los Azulejos with Orozco's Omniscience, the Templo de San Francisco and the Torre Latinoamericana, to the Palacio Postal, the Palacio de Minería, Tolsá's El Caballito, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Alameda Central and the Hemiciclo a Juárez.
21 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 · 237 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 38 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.
Zócalo, Palacio Nacional, Metropolitan Cathedral, Nacional Monte de Piedad, Templo Mayor, Museo del Templo Mayor.
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Secretaría de Educación Pública Murals, Plaza de Santo Domingo, Palacio de Minería, El Caballito, Palacio Postal, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Alameda Central, Hemiciclo a Juárez.
Torre Latinoamericana, Casa de los Azulejos, Templo de San Francisco, Palacio de Iturbide, Templo de La Profesa, Calle Madero.
Built on the site of Moctezuma's New Houses, with Rivera's staircase history of Mexico and the bell of Dolores above the balcony.
The twin temple of Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc at the centre of Tenochtitlan, forgotten after the 1520s and excavated after 1978.
The site museum of 1987, laid out in two wings for Huitzilopochtli and Tláloc, with the great Coyolxauhqui stone.
Diego Rivera's fresco cycle of 1923 to 1928, 235 panels across two courtyards on three levels.
A palace faced in blue and white Puebla tiles, with Orozco's 1925 mural Omniscience on the main staircase.
Boari's marble palace, begun in 1904 and opened in 1934, with murals by Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros and Tamayo.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 21 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. 21 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 Mexico City — the Zócalo, the Templo Mayor and the Centro Histórico, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
21 narration points, including Zócalo, Palacio Nacional, Metropolitan Cathedral, Templo Mayor and Secretaría de Educación Pública Murals. That is about 41 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 total, but you walk at your own pace. 21 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.