Audio tours
in Madrid

Audio tours in Madrid

Dark History

Dark Madrid: The Wounds Spain Never Fully Closed

In November 1936, Madrid was about to fall. Franco's troops were advancing from the south. The Republican government had fled to Valencia. Foreign embassies were raising white flags. Francoist radio was already announci

🎧 15 min 12 stops 🚶 5.1 km ESENPT +2

History

Imperial Madrid: Five Centuries in One Walk

Madrid was not born a capital. It became one by decree. In 1561, Philip II made a decision that changed the map of Europe: he moved the court of the largest Spanish Empire in the world to a second-tier town in the heart

🎧 13 min 12 stops 🚶 4.2 km ESENPT +2

History

Habsburg Madrid: the Small Town That Became the Capital of an Empire

In 1561 Philip II settled his court in a Castilian town with no cathedral and no university, in the middle of the plateau. From there the Spanish Habsburgs ruled lands on four continents until 1700. Thirteen stops betwee

🎧 22 min 13 stops 🚶 5.1 km ESENPT +2

Art & Culture

The Prado: the Building Meant for Science That Ended Up Housing Velázquez and Goya

Charles III ordered a natural history cabinet to be built beside the Paseo del Prado, next to a botanical garden and an observatory. The war against Napoleon left it in ruins, and Ferdinand VII turned it into a museum of

🎧 24 min 12 stops 🚶 2.68 km ESENPT +2

History

Madrid Under Siege: The Capital That Lived Nearly Three Years with the Front in Its Streets

In November 1936 Franco's troops reached the gates of Madrid convinced they would take it within days. The city held out until March 1939, bombed from the air and shelled from the nearby hills, with the front line a few

🎧 24 min 12 stops 🚶 69.71 km ESENPT +2

History

Dark Madrid: the Inquisition, the Autos-da-Fé and a Court That Executed in Public

Behind the cheerful facades of central Madrid lie three centuries of organised fear: the tribunal that policed the faith, squares turned into theatres of punishment and the balconies from which the court looked on. In 16

🎧 22 min 12 stops 🚶 3.97 km ESENPT +2

Suggested plan for Madrid

Doing every Trevurs tour in Madrid takes about 25 h 30 min in total. A relaxed way to split it:

No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.

Madrid on a budget

The Trevurs app is free and has 6 audio tours in Madrid: 2 h of narration across 73 stops and 90.8 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.

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Madrid at your own pace

Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded. One route is longer than 12 km: split it over several days or use public transport between some stops.

• Dark Madrid: The Wounds Spain Never Fully Closed
  Starts at stop 1, “Where It All Began” (map) · 15 min of audio · 5.1 km (~1 h 15 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Imperial Madrid: Five Centuries in One Walk
  Starts at stop 1, “The Gate That Never Closed” (map) · 13 min of audio · 4.2 km (~1 h 5 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Habsburg Madrid: the Small Town That Became the Capital of an Empire
  Starts at stop 1, “A Small Town Chosen to Rule the World” (map) · 22 min of audio · 5.1 km (~1 h 15 min on foot) · ~1 h 45 min in total
• The Prado: the Building Meant for Science That Ended Up Housing Velázquez and Goya
  Starts at stop 1, “Art and Nature Under One Roof” (map) · 24 min of audio · 2.7 km (~40 min on foot) · ~1 h 15 min in total
• Madrid Under Siege: The Capital That Lived Nearly Three Years with the Front in Its Streets
  Starts at stop 1, “The Balcony Where the Republic Was Born” (map) · 24 min of audio · 69.7 km (~17 h 25 min on foot) · ~18 h in total
• Dark Madrid: the Inquisition, the Autos-da-Fé and a Court That Executed in Public
  Starts at stop 1, “The Office of Fear” (map) · 22 min of audio · 4 km (~1 h on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total

In one day you can do Habsburg Madrid: the Small Town That Became the Capital of an Empire (~1 h 45 min), Dark Madrid: The Wounds Spain Never Fully Closed (~1 h 30 min) and Imperial Madrid: Five Centuries in One Walk (~1 h 30 min): about 4 h 45 min of touring with audio and walking. Doing all 6 tours takes about 3 days at a relaxed pace, as in the suggested plan on this page.

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Why an audio tour

• ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
• ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
• ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
• ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
• ✓ Works offline once downloaded

Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.

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