San Marino: A Self Guided Audio Tour
Description
Are you looking for a way to see San Marino without joining a tour group? Explore at your own pace with this affordable walking tour. • Find out about the city, its architecture, history and legends too, including one about a saint who befriended and rode a bear • Hear from producer Mike Corradi, an Anglo-Italian English teacher and the owner of A History of Italy podcast • Do it all in 45 minutes or linger at stops along the way with complete control over when you start and finish • Get unlimited use before your booking date and after it • Use the virtual tour option at home Once you’ve booked, you’ll receive a ticket with instructions and a unique code listed under “Before You Go”. Then simply install the VoiceMap app and enter your code. The app displays directions to the starting point, and when you’re in the right place, just pop in your headphones and tap start. VoiceMap has automatic GPS playback, with turn-by-turn directions. It also works offline.
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Itinerary
On this walking tour, we’ll explore the unique nature of this city, the capital of Europe’s smallest and the world’s oldest republic of the same name, which dates back to 301 AD.
Starting at the entrance to Porta San Francesco (Gate of Saint Francis), you’ll wander through the city’s narrow streets.
The tour passes by the Church of Saint Francis. You'll learn about the church while you walk.
On this 45-minute audio tour, you'll pass through Piazzetta del Titano
The tour passes by Palazzo Pubblico. You'll hear about the building while you walk.
You'll see the Cava dei Balestrieri, a quarry often used for crossbow shooting, a historical specialty in the city
You can look forward to taking in the sweeping views at the Il Cantone viewpoint and the tranquillity of Giardini Borghesi, the Borghesi Gardens
On this tour, you'll pass in front of Basilica di San Marino, where a settlement was first established
On this 45-minute audio tour, you'll pass by two of three towers, Torre Cesta and Guaita.
You can look forward to walking through the 13th century Passo delle Streghe (the ‘pathway of witches’) where young girls used to come and dance around bonfires
On this 45-minute audio tour, you'll pass by two of three towers, Torre Cesta and Guaita.
Our 45-minute tour ends in Piazza della Libertà, where I’ll share how the city’s very own Statue of Liberty came to arrive in this square.
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Important Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(16)
It's very easy, accessible. You can have a private tour in your own pace and it's not in a group. You can also put your phone away and the app knows where you are and starts talking when you're at the right location. Very interesting and interactive guide. Absolutely recommend, we loved this tour very much. You get to see all the highlights of San Marino old town.
I'm often a bit obsessed with the idea of missing out on something and this tour allows you to cover all the most important spots plus a few extra hidden parts and gives you a great overview and background to the interesting history of this little republic. There are a lot of ups and downs, so the possibility of stopping when we want to is perfect for older travellers such as myself and my friends. We were able to stop when we wanted and not have to rush around after a group. All in all, a great way to explore the city.
Very well guided tour, because of the GPS it started automatically when you got to an area next on the tour.
It was an easy to use tour. I really enjoyed it. It auto played as you moved along and would tell you when you were off track. Affordable, informational, overall good value
The narrator was knowledgeable and his voice was pleasant! The audio went in and out a few times but it was certainly worth $10!!
Great narrative that made the walking experience around the City of San Marino much more enjoyable and entertaining.
The directions were easy to follow and added a lot of information to things that we had already seen but knew nothing about. We enjoyed not being in a group with annoying people and could do the walk at our pace.
Very glad to have seen this tour the night before as the only tours available are private tours and/or requires at least two people. At your pace audio-guided and very affordable tour through an app and covered all the historic attractions within Centro Stórico.
I enjoyed the app and the tour based on my personal pace… I could have not enjoyed that much in a group tour for sure.. so I do recommend it.
Very simple to use the app and was very good informative to a great degree .. i was very happy to do my tour using the app so i had the tour on my own pace .. as the app says that it covers 45 minutes tours but i did it in 2,5 hours with repeating some details and reloading the audios.
