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A self-guided audio tour of ancient Perge, about 18 kilometres north-east of central Antalya by road; from a cruise ship it is a drive, and the ship's own excursion is the safer choice when time is short. It starts outside the walls at the theatre, closed for restoration and told from outside, with the Dionysus reliefs on its stage podium, and the U-shaped stadium facing it, whose vaulted rooms served as shops. Past the base of Plancia Magna's tomb, the walk enters through the 4th-century Roman gate into the Square of Septimius Severus, with the Southern Nymphaeum and the Southern Baths and palaestra, then the agora, a market of about 23 shops around a circular tholos. Through the Hellenistic gate of the 3rd century BC and the horseshoe courtyard Plancia Magna rebuilt in AD 120–122, it goes north up the colonnaded street with its two-level water channel, past the early 5th-century basilica and the remains of the Arch of Demetrios and Apollonios, to the Kestros Fountain of Hadrian's reign below the acropolis. It returns west along the western street past the Northern Palaestra and Baths to the Nymphaeum of Caracalla and ends at the Western Gate.
18 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 · 26 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 3 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.
Theatre, Stadium, Tomb of Plancia Magna, Roman Gate, Southern Nymphaeum, Southern Baths and Palaestra, Agora, Hellenistic Gate.
Colonnaded Street, Episcopal Basilica.
Arch of Demetrios and Apollonios, Kestros Fountain, Acropolis of Perge, Western Colonnaded Street, Northern Palaestra, Northern Baths, Nymphaeum of Caracalla, Western Gate.
Built against a hillside outside the walls and closed for restoration, its stage podium carries reliefs from the life of Dionysus; its orchestra was later made an arena and then watertight for water spectacles.
A long U-shaped arena on thirty vaults along each side, whose vaulted rooms under the seating served as shops.
Two round towers of the 3rd century BC and the horseshoe courtyard Plancia Magna, a priestess of Artemis, rebuilt in AD 120–122 with two levels of statue niches.
A square market of the first half of the 2nd century CE, with about 23 shops around a central circular building that may have been a temple or a sacred spring.
The main north-south street, with a two-level water channel down its middle and cart-wheel grooves cut into its paving.
Hadrian's-era fountain and gate to the acropolis, with the reclining river god Kestros in its central niche, where the street's water channel begins.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 18 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. 18 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 Perge — the City of the Pamphylian Plain, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
18 narration points, including Tomb of Plancia Magna, Roman Gate, Agora, Acropolis of Perge and Theatre. That is about 22 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. 18 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.