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Ávila: History and Monuments

Ávila: History and Monuments

Ávila · Spain

14 stops5.8 km1 h 11 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Explore Ávila through a sequence of manors, churches, convents, defensive structures, and historic craft remains. You will see how the old town, its churches beyond the walls, and its monumental buildings preserve different chapters of the city's past. The route also brings you to the Murallas de Ávila and Torre del Homenaje, where defensive architecture becomes a central part of the story. Take this walk for a focused look at Ávila's built history and the details that give its monuments their character.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Palacio de los Verdugo

    Palacio de los Verdugo

    A sixteenth-century Ávila palace that became a convent, changed hands, and still carries a Vettonian boar.

  2. Basilica of San Vicente

    Basilica of San Vicente

    A Romanesque church of martyrs, royal upheaval, and one of Spain’s finest medieval tomb monuments.

  3. Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches

    Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches

    Ávila’s UNESCO story is a walled medieval city paired with eleven sites beyond it.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Palacio de los Velada

    Palacio de los Velada

    A sixteenth-century Renaissance manor, later a hotel, with a tower known by two names.

  6. Bracamonte Palace

    Bracamonte Palace

    A defensive fifteenth-century palace whose courtyard preserves the Bracamonte family story.

  7. Convent of the Incarnation

    Convent of the Incarnation

    Teresa of Ávila became a nun and later prioress here before founding the Discalced Carmelites.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

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  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.