Let's Tapear! The Madrid Tapas Route Walking Audio Tour
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About this experience
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.
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Let's Tapear! The Madrid Tapas Route Walking Audio Tour
What's included
VoiceMap Application
Lifetime access to Let's Tapear! The Madrid Tapas Route tour
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
Detailed itinerary
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Stop 1
Pass by
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.
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Stop 2
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.
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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.
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Stop 4
Pass by
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.
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Stop 5
Pass by
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.
What's not included
Smartphone
Transportation
Food/Drink
Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Available languages
Audio guide
EN
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Important 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
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.
Important notes
VOICEMAP CODE
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Please check your email at the address you provided when you made this booking. You've been sent an eight character code you'll need to redeem your tour.
This code can be used by every member of your party. If you've booked for three people, for example, three people can download this tour using the same code.
DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
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Once you've received your code, please follow these steps:
1. Install the VoiceMap Audio Tours mobile app
2. Create an account
3. Select Tour Codes from the menu, then select Enter Codes
4. Enter your code then select Download Now
PLEASE NOTE
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• You can download the tour at any time, before or after your booking date. It’s best to download the tour before you set off for the starting point.
• This tour follows a set route and includes turn-by-turn directions. It works best if you start it in the right place and follow the directions from one location to the next.
• When the download completes, you’ll see a screen with a photo of the starting point and directions to it. The red start button will become active when you are at the starting point.
• Remember to bring your own headphones, unless you have booked a driving tour.
SUPPORT
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For technical support and other queries, please email support@voicemap.me
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