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A self-guided audio walking tour of Ronda that crosses the El Tajo gorge, drops down to the old bridges and the Arab baths and climbs into La Ciudad, the old walled town, on steep streets and steps. It begins in El Mercadillo, at the Merced church, the Alameda del Tajo, finished in 1806, and the bullring of the Real Maestranza, whose story starts with a letter from Philip the Second in 1572. Below, the Puente Viejo, rebuilt in 1616, the Arco de Felipe V of 1742 and the Puente Árabe at river level lead to the Baños Árabes, a hammam that worked mainly as a steam bath, and up past the Puerta de la Cijara and the minaret of San Sebastián to the Casa del Rey Moro, where a water mine is cut down through the gorge wall to the Guadalevín. The Puente Nuevo, finished in 1793, crosses a gorge 120 metres deep. In La Ciudad the walk passes the Palacio de Mondragón, Santa María la Mayor on the site of the main mosque and the Plaza Duquesa de Parcent, and ends at the Puerta de Almocábar, built in the 13th century. The Catholic Monarchs took the town in May 1485, after its water supply was cut.
25 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 · 102 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 57 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.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Alameda del Tajo, Plaza de Toros de Ronda, Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Socorro, Plaza de España, Templete de la Virgen de los Dolores.
Ermita rupestre de la Oscuridad, Iglesia de Padre Jesús, Puente Viejo, Arco de Felipe V, Puente Árabe, Baños Árabes, Puerta de la Cijara, Minarete de San Sebastián, Palacio del Marqués de Salvatierra, Casa del Rey Moro.
Convento de Santo Domingo, Puente Nuevo, Casa de San Juan Bosco, Casa del Gigante, Palacio de Mondragón, Santa María la Mayor, Plaza Duquesa de Parcent, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, Puerta de Almocábar.
The bullring of the Real Maestranza de Caballería, built for horsemanship and bullfights on a level site then outside the town.
The New Bridge across the El Tajo gorge, 120 metres deep, finished in 1793 after an earlier single-arch bridge collapsed.
The middle of the three bridges over the Guadalevín, rebuilt in 1616 where the gorge is about 30 metres deep.
An Islamic bath that worked mainly as a steam bath, built beside the Arroyo de las Culebras outside the walls of the medina.
An eighteenth-century house above a water mine cut down through the gorge wall to give the walled town water during a siege.
The minaret of a fourteenth-century mosque that became a church bell tower, with the change still readable in the tower.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 25 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. 25 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 Ronda — the Gorge, the Bridges and the Old Town, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
25 narration points, including Alameda del Tajo, Plaza de España, Puente Viejo, Casa del Rey Moro and Puente Nuevo. That is about 36 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. 25 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.