Free audioguides about Architecture
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October 29, 2026
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Miguel Ángel G.P.
The Palacio de Cristal, Madrid’s Crystal Palace, is the iron and glass pavilion that Ricardo Velázquez Bosco built in 1887 beside the lake in Retiro Park, as a greenhouse for the Philippines Exhibition. Today it is one of the Museo...
The Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid’s Alcalá Gate, is the granite triumphal arch that King Charles III built where the road from Alcalá de Henares entered the city: 5 openings, a design by Francesco Sabatini and the year 1778 spelt out...
The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial is Philip II’s statement in granite: a monastery, a basilica, a royal palace, a library and the burial vault of Spain’s kings, all in one building at 1,028 m up in...
Westminster Abbey is London’s coronation church: 40 monarchs have been crowned here since 1066, and 30 kings and queens are buried inside. The Gothic church you see was begun by Henry III in 1245. A standard adult ticket costs £31...
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral is the Romanesque cathedral built over the tomb of Saint James, where every Camino ends. Work began around 1075 and it was consecrated in 1211. Entry is free, every day from 7am to 9pm, through the...
Buckingham Palace began as a townhouse built in 1703 for the Duke of Buckingham and became a palace under George IV. Queen Victoria was the first sovereign to live in it, from 1837. Behind the East Front, refaced in Portland...
The London Eye is the 135 m observation wheel that David Marks and Julia Barfield designed for the millennium and that opened on 31 December 1999, opposite Big Ben. Its 32 capsules take 30 minutes to go round, with views...
Tower Bridge is the bascule bridge that Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry designed and that went up beside the Tower of London between 1886 and 1894. Its 2 halves still open about 800 times a year; inside you walk...
This free audio guide to the Temple of Athena Nike plays straight from your phone, with no app and no sign-up, as you climb the ramp to the Propylaia with the bastion on your right. It tells you what Pausanias...
This free audio guide to the Temple of Hephaestus plays straight from your phone — no app, no sign-up — as you walk up the hill of Kolonos Agoraios and round the columns. It tells you why this building still...