Santiago Highlights Audio Tour: Historic Heart

Explore Santiago at your own pace

Beneath the modern glass of Santiago lie layers of shattered empires and whispered conspiracies that still haunt the pavement. This city breathes history through its scars and grand monuments.

Unlock these secrets with a self guided audio tour designed to peel back the facade of the capital. Discover the hidden narratives that most travelers walk past without a second glance.

Why did the Plaza de la Constitución become the silent stage for a nation's most violent political collapse? What echoes remain trapped inside the cold, gilded walls of the Metropolitan Cathedral? Which long forgotten relic in the Pre-Columbian Museum holds a curse that locals still refuse to name?

Photo: Francisco Kemeny, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 2.9 km (1.8 miles)
• Stops: 15 landmarks, including Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, Palace of the Courts of Justice of Santiago, Former National Congress of Chile building
• Audio: up to 38 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Buying for a group? Choose one ticket per person: you get one code that works on every phone in your group.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Caio Silva, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
• Palace of the Courts of Justice of Santiago
• Former National Congress of Chile building
• Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago
• National Historical Museum (Chile)
• Santiago's Plaza de Armas
• Casa Colorada
• Municipal Theater of Santiago
• Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
• Iglesia de San Francisco
• Memoria visual de una nación
• Centro Cultural La Moneda
• Palacio de la Moneda
• Building of the Metropolitan Intendancy of Santiago
• Constitution Square (Santiago, Chile)

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Murasaki-san (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); Francisco Kemeny, Caio Silva, Juan Pablo Ahumada, Agustín Ljósmyndun, Jeffrey Eisen (Unsplash).