Let's Tapear! The Madrid Tapas Route Walking Audio Tour

5.0 (1 reviews) Madrid, Spain
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Overview

Forget the fixed timings of conventional walking tours and explore the tapas hotspots of central Madrid with a VoiceMap tour. Download the mobile app and roam from Madrid’s La Latina and Austrias neighbourhoods to its Literary Quarter in your own time via GPS-triggered storytelling. Visit the Mercado de San Miguel, Cava Baja and Calle Huertas, discover new places to eat and learn about Spain’s tapas culture, using the app’s geodata to navigate.

Discover Madrid’s La Latina, Madrid of the Austrias and Literary Quarter. Tour at your own pace and hear facts and tales you’d miss alone. Experience the Mercado de San Miguel, Cava Baja, Plaza Mayor and some of the best authentic tapas bars the centre has to offer. Set your own itinerary and enjoy the bonus of commentary without getting lost.

The tour is ready whenever you are and the audio plays automatically at exactly the right time and place using your smartphone's GPS and the VoiceMap mobile app, which also works offline.

What's included

  • VoiceMap Application
  • Lifetime access to Let's Tapear! The Madrid Tapas Route tour
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • Smartphone
  • Transportation
  • Food/Drink
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

What to expect

  1. Mercado San Miguel
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    The Mercado de San Miguel is Madrid’s most central covered market. After an overhaul in recent years, it is now a major draw for tourists and home to over 40 food and drink producers from all over Spain.
  2. Plaza Mayor
    Pass by
    Plaza Mayor is usually a hive of activity and has a long line of old shops around its edge. Plaza Mayor has been known to host markets, bullfights, soccer games and public Inquisition trials. It is surrounded by residential buildings and has 237 balconies facing the Plaza.
  3. Calle de las Huertas
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    Calle de las Huertas is the main street in Madrid’s Barrio de las Letras or Literary Quarter. It has been home to some famous names in Spain’s Golden Age of literature and is also crammed full of bars and restaurants, making it a popular nightspot for all.
  4. La Latina
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    On the site of a medieval Islamic fort, the lively barrio of La Latina is a maze of narrow lanes filled with tapas bars and cantinas.
  5. Puerta del Sol
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    The Puerta del Sol is a public square in Madrid, one of the best known and busiest places in the city. This is the centre of the radial network of Spanish roads.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

The tour starts outside the front entrance to the Mercado de San Miguel. Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace.

End point

Additional information

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

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