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Ávila Sacred Places Walk

Ávila Sacred Places Walk

Ávila · Spain

14 stops6.1 km1 h 14 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a sequence of churches, monasteries, a basilica, chapels, and hermitages that reveals the variety of Ávila’s sacred places. You will visit the church associated with the birthplace of Saint Teresa of Jesus, encounter religious houses including Santo Tomás, San José, and the Encarnación, and pause at several dedicated churches. The walk also includes places of worship with different forms and identities, from a basilica to small hermitages. Take it for a focused journey through the city’s devotional landmarks.

The walk

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

  1. Convent of Saint Teresa

    Convent of Saint Teresa

    Church and birthplace of Saint Teresa of Jesus in Ávila, Spain

  2. Iglesia de San Nicolás

    Iglesia de San Nicolás

    A Romanesque parish church whose plain exterior hides a Baroque interior and UNESCO status.

  3. Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol

    Iglesia de Santiago Apóstol

    A Gothic church with a probably fourteenth-century octagonal tower and a Jacobean altarpiece.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Vacas

    Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Vacas

    A modest church with a medieval patronage, a disputed beginning, and a seventeenth-century head.

  6. Royal Monastery of Santo Tomás

    Royal Monastery of Santo Tomás

    No description yet.

  7. Convento de San José (Carmelitas Descalzas)

    Convento de San José (Carmelitas Descalzas)

    No description yet.

  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

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • 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

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

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