Are the audio guides in Italy free?
Yes. All 93 guides on this page are free to listen to: no payment, no subscription and no account. Only creating a new guide for another place in the Mappu app is a separate feature that may use credits.
Italy audio guides
Explore free Mappu audio guides across Italy. These pages collect quick, source-aware landmark guides that travelers can read, preview, and turn into their own trip context.
Free audio guides in Italy: quick answers
Do I need to download an app to listen on my phone?
No. The guides play in your phone’s browser: open the page and listen, on a computer too. The Mappu app is optional.
How long is each audio guide?
They are short: a typical guide in Italy lasts about 7 minutes, in 5 short sections, about the length of a stop on a city walk.
Are they easy to use for older travelers?
Yes. There is nothing to install and no form to fill in: open a guide and press play. The full text is on the same page, so you can read along or read instead of listening.
How do I start an audio guide?
Pick a place from the list below (or search for it), open its guide and press play. Headphones help at busy sights. Audio playback uses the voices available in your browser.
Destination collections
Agrigento 2 guidesAlberobello 2 guides
Alghero 2 guides
Cinque Terre 5 guides
Ercolano 2 guidesFlorence 12 guides
Matera 2 guides
Naples 7 guides
Palermo 2 guides
Pisa 2 guides
Pompeii 2 guidesPuglia 2 guides
Rome 28 guides
Siena 4 guides
Trieste 7 guidesVenice 6 guides
Photo attribution
- Agrigento: Giacomo Palermo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Alberobello: Sheila C
- Alghero: Christian Pinatel de Salvator / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Cinque Terre: Timothy A. Gonsalves / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Ercolano: Norbert Nagel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Florence: Jonathan Körner
- Matera: Paolo Bendandi
- Naples: Jordan Grider
- Palermo: SnapSaga
- Pisa: Heidi Kaden
- Pompeii: Kasa Fue / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Puglia: Henrique Ferreira
- Rome: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Siena: Mark Sehnert / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain (Public domain)
- Trieste: Smiley.toerist / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Venice: Ljubomir Žarković
Audio guides in Italy
Scala dei Turchi
AgrigentoTrulli of Alberobello
Alberobello
Trullo Sovrano
AlberobelloNeptune's Grotto
Alghero
Nuraghe di Palmavera
Alghero
Corniglia
Cinque TerreManarola
Cinque Terre
Monterosso al Mare
Cinque Terre
Riomaggiore
Cinque Terre
Vernazza
Cinque Terre
Basilica of Sant'Abbondio
ComoCremona Cathedral
CremonaHerculaneum
Ercolano
Mount Vesuvius
Ercolano
Fenestrelle Fort
Fenestrelle
Boboli Gardens
Florence
Cenacolo Di Sant'Apollonia
Florence
Chiostro dello Scalzo
FlorenceFlorence Duomo
Florence
Galleria dell'Accademia
Florence
Medici Chapels
Florence
The Soul of the Oltrarno
FlorencePalazzo Vecchio
Florence
Pitti Palace
FlorencePonte Vecchio
FlorenceBasilica of Santa Croce
Florence
Santa Maria Novella
Florence
Palombaro Lungo
MateraThe Sassi di Matera and Via Muro
MateraMilan Duomo
Milan
Palazzo dello Spagnolo
Naples
Chiesa di San Giovanni a Carbonara
Naples
San Lorenzo Maggiore
Naples
Basilica di Santa Maria della Sanità
Naples
Spaccanapoli
NaplesNaples Underground
Naples
Via San Gregorio Armeno
NaplesOstuni
Puglia
Cappella Palatina
PalermoPalermo Cathedral
Palermo
Pisa Cathedral
PisaThe Leaning Tower of Pisa
PisaPompeii Archaeological Park
Pompeii
Villa of the Mysteries
Pompeii
Castel del Monte
Puglia
Appian Way
Rome
Arco di Giano
Rome
Baths of Caracalla
Rome
Castel Sant'Angelo
RomeColosseum
RomeFlaminio Obelisk
Rome
Jewish Ghetto Rome
Rome
Mausoleo di Costanza
Rome
Moschea di Roma
Rome
Palatine Hill
Rome
Pantheon
Rome
Ponte Cavour
Rome
Roman Forum
Rome
The Layered History of San Crisogono
Rome
San Giorgio in Velabro
Rome
Chiesa di Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Rome
Chiesa Nuova
RomeSanta Maria Maggiore
Rome
Basilica di Santa Prassede
Rome
Basilica di Santa Pudenziana al Viminale
Rome
Santi Apostoli
Rome
Saints Cosmas and Damian at the Roman Forum
RomeThe Spanish Steps
RomeTrastevere
RomeTrevi Fountain
RomeVilla Borghese
RomeMount Etna
SicilyValley of the Temples
Agrigento
Basilica of San Domenico
Siena
Siena Cathedral
SienaPiazza del Campo
Siena
Piazza Salimbeni
Siena
Greek Theatre of Taormina
TaorminaTrani Cathedral
Trani
Arco di Riccardo
Trieste
Canal Grande
Trieste
Molo Audace
TriestePiazza Unità d'Italia
Trieste
Roman Theatre
Trieste
San Giusto Castle
Trieste
San Giusto Cathedral
TriesteBurano
Venice
Cannaregio
VeniceDoge's Palace
Venice
Gallerie dell'Accademia
Venice
Santa Maria della Salute
VeniceSaint Mark's Basilica
Venice
Basilica Palladiana
Vicenza
Photo attribution
- Scala dei Turchi: Enrico Strocchi / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- Trulli of Alberobello: Sheila C
- Trullo Sovrano: Istvánka / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Neptune's Grotto: Christian Pinatel de Salvator / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Nuraghe di Palmavera: Romina Cariga / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Corniglia: Timothy A. Gonsalves / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Manarola: Timothy A. Gonsalves / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Monterosso al Mare: Superchilum / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Riomaggiore: Timothy A. Gonsalves / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Vernazza: chensiyuan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Basilica of Sant'Abbondio: Capricornis crispus / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Cremona Cathedral: Matteo Bellia
- Herculaneum: Norbert Nagel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Mount Vesuvius: Ingo Mehling / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Fenestrelle Fort: Olgierd Rudak / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Boboli Gardens: sailko / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Cenacolo Di Sant'Apollonia: Francesco Bini / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Chiostro dello Scalzo: Sailko / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Florence Duomo: Jonathan Körner
- Galleria dell'Accademia: Robot8A / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Medici Chapels: Richardfabi / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain (Public domain)
- The Soul of the Oltrarno: Jebulon / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 (CC0)
- Palazzo Vecchio: Antonio Feregrino
- Pitti Palace: sailko / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5 (CC BY 2.5)
- Ponte Vecchio: Ilse Orsel
- Basilica of Santa Croce: Nick Agee
- Santa Maria Novella: Commonists / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Palombaro Lungo: Holger Uwe Schmitt / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The Sassi di Matera and Via Muro: Paolo Bendandi
- Milan Duomo: Ouael Ben Salah
- Palazzo dello Spagnolo: Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Chiesa di San Giovanni a Carbonara: Giuseppe Guida / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- San Lorenzo Maggiore: Berthold Werner / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Basilica di Santa Maria della Sanità: Nuceria / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain (Public domain)
- Spaccanapoli: Velvet / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Naples Underground: Jordan Grider
- Via San Gregorio Armeno: Luca Aless / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Ostuni: Henrique Ferreira
- Cappella Palatina: Magister_Ludi (Demian Germain) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
- Palermo Cathedral: SnapSaga
- Pisa Cathedral: Saffron Blaze / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa: Heidi Kaden
- Pompeii Archaeological Park: Kasa Fue / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Villa of the Mysteries: Martuna.22 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Castel del Monte: Fishmax77 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Appian Way: Falk2 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Arco di Giano: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Baths of Caracalla: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Castel Sant'Angelo: Jebulon / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 (CC0)
- Colosseum: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Flaminio Obelisk: Dmitry Tomashek
- Jewish Ghetto Rome: Livioandronico2013 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Mausoleo di Costanza: © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Moschea di Roma: LPLT / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Palatine Hill: Pieter van Eekeren / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Pantheon: Nicholas Hartmann / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Ponte Cavour: Krzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Roman Forum: Kameister / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The Layered History of San Crisogono: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- San Giorgio in Velabro: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Chiesa di Sant'Andrea al Quirinale: Architas / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Chiesa Nuova: Jebulon / Wikimedia Commons / CC0 1.0 (CC0 1.0)
- Santa Maria Maggiore: Casey Lovegrove
- Basilica di Santa Prassede: Rione I Monti / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Basilica di Santa Pudenziana al Viminale: Rione I Monti / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- Santi Apostoli: Sailko / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)
- Saints Cosmas and Damian at the Roman Forum: Chabe01 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The Spanish Steps: Shai Pal
- Trastevere: Mariano Alvarez
- Trevi Fountain: Michele Bitetto
- Villa Borghese: Jovan Vasiljević
- Mount Etna: Asa Rodger
- Valley of the Temples: Giacomo Palermo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Basilica of San Domenico: Wolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Siena Cathedral: Raimond Spekking / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Piazza del Campo: Mark Sehnert / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain (Public domain)
- Piazza Salimbeni: Superchilum / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Greek Theatre of Taormina: Berthold Werner / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Trani Cathedral: Domenico Adornato
- Arco di Riccardo: Geobia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Canal Grande: Zairon / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Molo Audace: Johann Jaritz / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Piazza Unità d'Italia: Smiley.toerist / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Roman Theatre: Luca Aless / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- San Giusto Castle: Marchetto da Trieste / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- San Giusto Cathedral: MatthiasKabel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Burano: Lopez Robin
- Cannaregio: Wolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Doge's Palace: Denys
- Gallerie dell'Accademia: Wolfgang Moroder / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
- Santa Maria della Salute: Kallerna / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Saint Mark's Basilica: Ljubomir Žarković
- Basilica Palladiana: Didier Descouens / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Rome 3 days: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Sicily 7 days: SnapSaga
- Sardinia 7 days: Christian Pinatel de Salvator / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Naples 3 days: Kasa Fue / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Venice 3 days: Ljubomir Žarković
- Florence 3 days: Jonathan Körner
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Sicily 7 days
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Naples 3 days
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Venice 3 days
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Florence 3 days
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The Duomo and Signoria at dusk, the dome climb, Palazzo Vecchio and Santa Croce, then Pitti, Boboli and the Brancacci Chapel.
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