Siracusa Walking Tour with Audio and Written Guide by a Local
Recommended by 94% of travelers
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Syracuse, Italy
- 4 to 5 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Instead of exploring Syracuse on your own, let this digital guide show you the city’s highlights to ensure you don’t miss the best parts. Explore at your own pace, without rushing to keep up with a group, and get your audio guide’s recommendations on the best places to eat after the tour is done.
- Sightsee around Syracuse with help, but on your own terms
- This experience is wheelchair and stroller accessible
- Hear local stories that don’t make it onto the average brochure
- Don’t stress about language barriers—the tour is offered in five
What's Included
- Digital guide to visit the city by yourself
- Best advices for local restaurant with authentic food
- Audio and text in multiple languages (Eng, Esp, Ita, Ger, Fr)
- Tips for monuments, history and curiosities
- Connected with google maps
- Headphones not included. You'll use your smarpthone and eventually your headphone!
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Ortigia Street MarketVicolo Bagnara, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy
My itinerary starts out from this place! However, you can access to the digital guide even before getting here!
End point
- Castello ManiacePiazza Federico di Svevia, 5, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy
Operating hours
- 09/26/2024 - 04/13/2027
Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Itinerary
1
Mercato di Ortigia
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Temple of Apollo (Tempio di Apollo) (Pass By)
2
Fontana di Diana
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Syracuse Cathedral
25 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
4
Arethusa Spring
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Parco Archeologico della Neapolis
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Teatro Greco (Pass By)
Ear of Dionysius (Pass By)
6
Santuario Madonna delle Lacrime
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
7
Santuario di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro
15 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
p_R
This tour is a genius idea. You can go at your own pace instead of trailing behind the group, you can actually hear the guide’s voice and you can stop when you feel like it, have a glass of Prosecco and a siesta and then pick-up where you left off. You can spend as much time as you want finding the salamander on the UL cornice or fast forward through the things that aren’t as thrilling. It’s a perfect tour, I loved it and wish more tours like this were available! Saw everything and learned so much. Thanks again!
Reviews
4.7
based on 69 reviews
angewong, Mar 2026
Informative and great value!
My friend and I originally had booked a free walking tour of Syracuse/Ortigia (with another company) but it was cancelled due to not enough participants signing up. At the last minute, I found this as an alternative and I am so glad that I did. While all of the information provided in this self-guided audio tour is available online and you can use Google Maps to navigate on your own, having the navigation embedded in the tour webpage made the experience seamless.
I would book this type of tour for other cities in the future!
MongLee_S, Mar 2026
overall, the narration was interesting, when it comes to specific monuments especially the buildings it can be confusing. The buildings tend to look alike and the photographs do not help to tell one from the other. The general introduction to the town and storytelling could be improved.
Val_H, Mar 2026
I like it that it was self-paced and give me a history of the island and the context of it- I recommended it to every traveller I met
Michelle_B, Feb 2026
I found the audio guide difficult to download. It was read by an AI voice. I would not purchase again.
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Hello, thank you for your review!
Actually, there is nothing to download since you access through a link and an individual password so I'm not 100% that you used the correct app 😅.
Christopher_O, Dec 2025
My first time & was very surprised at the easy and information. was just enough at each stop. The only thing is the pages seems to overlap & I jad to keep scrolling to see the info I wanted. :(
Yvonne_B, Oct 2025
Good value. Found some interesting places. Would buy again for another area. This box is far too long.
p_R, Oct 2025
This tour is a genius idea. You can go at your own pace instead of trailing behind the group, you can actually hear the guide’s voice and you can stop when you feel like it, have a glass of Prosecco and a siesta and then pick-up where you left off. You can spend as much time as you want finding the salamander on the UL cornice or fast forward through the things that aren’t as thrilling. It’s a perfect tour, I loved it and wish more tours like this were available! Saw everything and learned so much. Thanks again!
Caroline_D, Oct 2025
We thoroughly enjoyed exploring at our own pace but under the expert and informative guidance of the online tour guide. It was easy to use and we had a wonderful time exploring Ortigia
Steven_D, Apr 2025
We really enjoyed this walking tour. It was interactive with a map that took us around Ortigia in a thoughtful way and gave both audio and written overviews of each stop. Perfect for me and my 92 year old father! Walk about 5 minutes and then stop for a site. Many of the streets were shady so that made the walk even more enjoyable.
Paula_P, Apr 2025
Very affordable and informative. We could go at our own pace. Should paid for the guide sooner and downloaded it at home, because of insufficient internet bandwidth on our cruise. One of our members had to read the information aloud.
Ashleigh_M, Apr 2025
Great self guided tour to help you get around and tell you about the history. Good idea if you want a bit of structure to your day and would like to know more.
Brent_J, Feb 2025
The narrative of each pint of interest was excellent. However, my connection would occasionally crash for no reason. Instead of holding my phone to my ear, as if making a call, I held my ear to the phone speaker instead. This reduced the times the app crashed.
Secondly, it would help if you included directions and distance to the next point of interest. I would have to switch to Google maps to find the next site before returning to your app. That is a lot of time spent looking at your phone instead of the point of interest.
Other than those two technical issues, I learned a lot about Ortigia.
Micaela_O, Jan 2026
Well done audio guide. You have the opportunity to follow your own pace and stop and resume when you want
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Loriana_D, Oct 2025
We were free to watch the city visit every corner with our times without problems, beautiful.
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Maria_T, Oct 2025
Easy to use. Good description of the sites to visit. In two of which there was no sound, but in the same way you could read and also you could help with the photos. We can't find the image of the
Virgin looking up at the sky. Look into it!
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S_I, Sep 2025
The audio tour of Ortigia is well thought out and takes into account most of the peninsula's sights, it is particularly suitable for solo travellers and for people who do not feel like walking in large groups through the narrow streets in the goose march. You can visit everything at your own pace, stop for a coffee or visit the suggested sights directly on site (links to opening hours and tickets). The ancient sights outside Ortigia in Syracuse City are also described in great detail, but in my opinion you cannot do this in one day. I have therefore taken screenshots of the descriptions for later. Highly recommended and inexpensive tour!
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Loretta_P, Sep 2025
Well-made guide allows you to see all the most important points of Ortigia, just the time spent explaining the various stages
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Irene_F, Sep 2025
Web-based audio guide, gives you the map of the route and explanations of about 2 min per attraction. Not only for Ortigia but also for Syracuse.
He guided us on our walk through the city without the intensity of a classic tour guide
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Ivanna_A, Aug 2025
Highly recommended. It gives you the freedom to walk around the city and get lost while listening to some history. It doesn't force you to submit to schedules.
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Lorena_H, Aug 2025
We can't find a guided free walking tour and this option allowed us to visit Syracuse in a couple of hours on our own. Well explained and with recommendations on food. Recommended.
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Cecilia_M, Aug 2025
A very good experience, the guide is very good and we were able to learn during the trip. You can follow it perfectly with Google Maps.
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Elena_E, Jul 2025
With a last-minute day on hand, I found this guide that gives you directions on what to see without getting lost. You also have time to delve into what you like best. Excellent
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Paloma_A, May 2025
Todo muy bien explicado, muy práctico, y con el orden que tu quieras seguir.
Además muy fácil de usar, con un mapa y las explicaciones de cada lugar.
Jorge_S, Oct 2024
La entrada a la Piazza del Duomo se nota un ambiente histórico con un aura especial, es para volver varios días y disfrutar de cada rincón de esta hermosa ciudad.
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