Catania Walking Tour with Audio and Written Guide by a Local
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Catania, Italy
- 3 to 4 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Digital guide to visit the city by yourself
- Best advices for local restaurant with authentic food
- Audio-guide and text in multiple languages (Eng, Esp, Ita, Ger, Fr)
- Tips for monuments, history and curiosities
- Connected with google maps
- Anfiteatro romano ticket: 4€
- Headphones not included. You'll use your smarpthone and eventually your headphone!
- A guide in person. The visit will be via digital guide
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Ursino CastleP.za Federico di Svevia, 21, 95121 Catania CT, Italy
My itinerary starts out from this castle! However, you can access to the digital guide even before getting here!
End point
- Monastero dei Benedettini di San Nicolò l'ArenaPiazza Dante Alighieri, 32, 95124 Catania CT, Italy
That's the final destination of your activity! By the way, considering the fact that the product is a digital guide that you can use by yourself, you'll be able to decide your ending point !
Operating hours
- 09/12/2024 - 06/09/2027
Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Itinerary
1
Ursino Castle
1 hour • Admission Ticket Free
2
A' Piscaria Mercato del Pesce
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Fontana dell'Amenano
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
4
Piazza del Duomo
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Basilica Cattedrale di Sant'Agata
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
6
Piazza Università
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
7
Anfiteatro Romano
25 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
8
Via dei Crociferi
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
9
Benedictine Monastery of San Nicolo l'Arena
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- You will need a smartphone with internet connection to use the digital guide (details to activate the digital guide will be in your voucher, read it carefully!)
- You'll be able to hear the audio through your speakers or, if you have them, through your headphones
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 104 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Gary_H
Very professional, easy to follow. A very efficient way to see Catania’s historic area. The ability to start and stop provides flexibility to customize the pace and routing to make any deviations you desire. I wish this type of audio guide were available in many of the other cities we visit. I highly recommend this guide.
Reviews
4.4
based on 40 reviews
Laura_B, Apr 2026
Really enjoyed this walking tour and being able to do it at my own pace and the added extras were a bonus. It was definitely worth the money. Brilliant value.
Theresa_W, Mar 2026
I did not fully understand what was suppose to happen, I thought I was getting a tour by a local. When I found out I was suppose to get some audio. I had to reach out to ask a question, I never got the audio. However, me and my friend had a great day on our own. Sorry I spend money on this one.
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Ciao! I'm sorry that you didn't use the experience! It was really simple: only a link and password! Actually You had all the info in product description + you got instructions in your voucher + you got a message on whatsapp + you got a mail 😅
Hope that this answer will help other travellers!
Lena_L, Feb 2026
Great, we felt like we saw most of what catania jas to offer. We saw parts that we wouldn’t have if investigating by ourselves
Ruan_M, Oct 2025
This was my second of these self guided tours and was not disappointed. Very thorough and easy to understand. My new favorite way of exploring the main sites in a city.
RitaLuisa_G, Oct 2025
I think the walking tour should start in a more central location. I had walked past 50% of the tour to arrive at the starting point. So
I ended up retracing most of it.
The information however was very well presented
Rochelle_C, Oct 2025
This is a really nice and inexpensive way to see the sites of these small cities. Listen to the history of each place the night before and if you use google maps to get back to your starting point it’s a perfect way to see what you’d like. Go at your own pace.
Dorsey, Oct 2025
Easy to do as it’s at your own pace & time. Very informative using your own phone. Excellent value for money. I think it’s better than having a guide
Gary_H, Apr 2025
Very professional, easy to follow. A very efficient way to see Catania’s historic area. The ability to start and stop provides flexibility to customize the pace and routing to make any deviations you desire. I wish this type of audio guide were available in many of the other cities we visit. I highly recommend this guide.
Michelle_K, Feb 2025
I never went on the tour because I never received the details on how to dowload the self guided tour.
I would like to be reimbursed
Response from Host, Mar 2025
Ciao👋🏻! All activation details are shared at the time of booking and the day before the event. In addition, on the day of the event you were also contacted to activate the guide which you then used(although you left the review anyway...).
We strive to provide assistance before-during-after the event even though sometimes customer reviews are a bit unfair 🥲.
Have a good day.
Ciao 👋🏻
Matteo
Walking Cap
Vera_A, Jan 2025
We did the tour of Catania and enjoyed a lot! It’s really well done, good content. We totally recommend it.
Dietmar_G, May 2026
We were skeptical at first about how this would work, but were thrilled at the end.
It all worked out great from the start.
Clear and understandable explanations of the respective objects were given. Then one was directed to Google Maps via a button, which then led me to a suggested route to the next landmark. But I found the best and special banger: you could also interrupt this path and go to dinner, or take another road, you were always included in the program and led to the sight.
I would also like to point out that you could have the explanations read out as often as you wanted if you had not understood something correctly. For this you just had to push the player back and so you could hear it again.
Personally, I found that much better than the guided tour with a guide in person.
So all in all I found it a successful app and can only highly recommend this type of viewing.
But I still have a small improvement suggestion:
That one would give recommendations for the parking garages which in the middle or beginning or end. Then it would be the icing on the cake for me.
But... and I would like to mention this, I had also given the question about the parking garages to the organizer via WhatsApp about the ticket load.
For this I did not get as needed or desired immediately, but later. We had already found a parking garage ourselves.
What I would like to mention, however, is that it really responded to my request. This shows me that the service is not only superficial, but also practiced.
One more recommendation from me:
The garage Siesicoro in VIA Gambino 25
I would recommend the parking garage is super clean and very tidy staff. You have to hand over the car key because the car is parked by the staff, but when we wanted to pick up our convertible unannounced, we saw how neatly our car was parked and it was handed over to us again.
So for me also all the stars to recommend.
And.... you can also experience a huge market at the same time if you go to the 2 corners.
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GIULIA_D, Jan 2026
Interesting and well done guide to have a basic flouring of everything! Very satisfied I have already taken another
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