OpenEar Tours

Nineteen walks across four cities. Barcelona, Madrid, San Sebastián, Istanbul.

Some cities are best explained by walking through them.

OpenEar plays a tour in your ear as you walk. When you reach a stop, the audio starts on its own — the phone stays in your pocket. No tapping. No signal required.

NOT A LIST OF FACTS. AN ARGUMENT.

Every OpenEar tour is written to make a point, not to recite dates. The Gothic Quarter is younger than it looks. Istanbul's most photographed square was a Roman racetrack. Each stop builds on the last, and the walk ends somewhere you didn't expect.

HOW IT WORKS

Choose a tour. Download it before you go. Start walking. GPS wakes each stop as you reach it — or tap any stop to play it yourself.

MADE FOR WALKING, NOT FOR STARING AT A SCREEN

· Works fully offline once downloaded — no roaming, no dead zones · Plays with the screen locked, from your pocket · Full transcripts for every stop, if you'd rather read or can't hear the audio · Available in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian

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WE DON'T TRACK YOU

Your location never leaves your phone. OpenEar contains no analytics, no tracking, and no crash-reporting software of any kind. We built it that way on purpose.

TOURS Barcelona · Gothic Heart — the quarter that's younger than it looks · Gràcia — the village that refused to disappear · Sea, Power & Memory I & II — the working waterfront, and the shore it became · Beyond the Walls — the defence that became a prison Madrid · Habsburg Madrid — the capital that was ordered into being · Bourbon Madrid — the hill of sciences · Castizo Madrid — the neighbourhood that outlived its own work · Literary Madrid — where the Golden Age wrote and fought · Gran Vía — they started building Paris and finished New York · The Christmas Fire — the night Madrid lost its castle Istanbul · Sultanahmet — nothing here stayed what it was · Divanyolu — what Mehmet inherited was a ruin · Kadıköy & Moda — the Istanbul across the water · Bebek & Rumeli Hisarı — the strait before it was a view · Dolmabahçe — the palace had two faces · Galata & Pera — the strength of not belonging San Sebastián · The Soul of San Sebastián · The Making of Donostia More cities are coming.