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Taranto Segreta – Audio Tour between Mysteries and Spirituality

By iTourist
Free cancellation available
Price is $17 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Discover Taranto through an immersive audio experience to listen to directly on your smartphone. This self-guided tour will take you through ancient alleys, hidden hypogea, silent churches, historic palaces and waterfronts suspended in time, between history, legends, mysteries and spirituality.

Walking at your own pace, you will hear emotional and engaging tales that combine historical details, unpublished curiosities, ghost stories, folk traditions and guided meditations in the most suggestive places of the city. From the Old Town to the Vittorio Emanuele III seafront, from the Peripato Gardens to the ancient underground, you will experience Taranto in an authentic and profound way.

Perfect for those who love original experiences, mystery, introspection and immersive storytelling.

  • Autonomous audio tour
  • Emotional and spiritual experience
  • Stories, legends and hidden places
  • Listen whenever you want, without guides or groups

You will not only visit Taranto.
You'll feel it.

Activity location

  • San Cataldo's Cathedral
    • Piazza Duomo
    • 74123, Taranto, Puglia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Piazza Castello
    • Piazza Castello
    • 74123, Taranto, Puglia, Italy

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Taranto Segreta – Audio Tour between Mysteries and Spirituality

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English
Price details
$17.14 x 1 Adult$17.14
Total
Price is $17.14
Until Sat, Jul 4

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Interactive map to see where you are and nearby places to visit
  • What's includedWhat's included
    No app downloads — works directly from your browser
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided meditations to enter the heart of the city and into yourself
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Full access to all content with 18 detailed audio guides
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Support / technical assistance in case of problems during use via WhatsApp
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Offline access
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Choose your transport (not included)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Smartphones and headphones (bring your own)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Physical Guide in person (not required)

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Castello Aragonese (Pass by)

Aragonese Castle – The nocturnal presence of soldiers and prisoners. This fortress dominates the entrance to the Old Town and overlooks the sea like an ancient guardian. Its location is not accidental: from here you controlled the access to the port, observed the routes, anticipated the dangers. Its origins date back to the ...

San Cataldo's Cathedral

  • 15m
Cathedral of San Cataldo – Legends related to the saint and relics. Cathedral of San Cataldo, in the heart of Taranto's Old Town. Before you go in, stop for a moment. Observe the façade, simple compared to the wealth it holds inside. It is as if this place does not want to show itself immediately, but invite you to ...

Chiesa del Carmine

  • 15m
Church of Carmine – Linked to the rites of Holy Week, full of emotion. The origins of the church date back to the sixteenth century, when the Carmelite order settled in Taranto, bringing with it a strong devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Over the centuries, this place has become the center ...

San Domenico Maggiore Church

  • 15m
Church of San Domenico Maggiore – Tales of monks and unexplained phenomena. You are in front of the Church of San Domenico Maggiore, in the heart of Taranto's Old Town. Before you go in, stop for a moment. This is not a place that imposes itself on the eye : it is a place that allows itself to be discovered ...

Chiesa di San Pasquale Baylon

  • 15m
Church of San Pasquale – Small and intimate, ideal for meditation. Outside, the church almost seems to hide. He doesn't look for attention, he doesn't demand attention. It's as if it exists for those who are willing to really slow down. And already this tells ...

Chiesa di Sant'Anna in Civitanova

  • 15m
Church of Sant’Anna – Between ancient devotion and the voices of the people. Its origins date back between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in a period when Taranto was made up of compact communities, where faith was lived together, in small spaces, in shared gestures. Saint Anne, the maternal figure par excellence, represented protection, care, continuity. And this place was born with ...

Taranto Vecchia

  • 20m
Old Town of Taranto – Alleys suspended in time, between tales of spirits and abandoned houses. You are on an island suspended between two seas, the Big Sea and the Small Sea. This location is not only geographical : it is symbolic. Since ancient times, this space has been perceived as a crossing point, a boundary between ...

Ex Convento di San Francesco (Pass by)

Former Convent of San Francesco – Franciscan Silence and Spirituality. The origins of the complex date back to the Middle Ages, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when the Franciscan order spread rapidly throughout Italy. The Franciscans carried with them a precise message: to live with ...

Giardini Peripato

  • 20m
Giardini Peripato – Among the oldest gardens, where time stands still. Under your feet there is not only earth. There is history. This space has its roots in ancient Taras, the Spartan colony founded in 706 BC. It was precisely in this area that parts of the Greek city developed, places of life, meeting, perhaps even ...

Giardini Peripato

  • 10m
Giardini Peripato – Between roots and sky : deep guided meditation. Here, between ancient trees and open sky, you can treat yourself to a different space... slower, truer.

Ipogeo di Via Cava (Pass by)

Hypogea of Taranto – Underground environments full of mystery and silence. Hold on a second. Even without going down, try to imagine what is below street level. These underground environments were born in ancient times, when stone was extracted directly from the subsoil to ...

Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III (Pass by)

Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III – Where time slows down in front of the horizon. This promenade was born between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at a time when Taranto was changing its face. The city expanded, modernized, sought new spaces. This place was designed not only as a passage, but as a ...

Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III (Pass by)

Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III – Guided meditation: “In the silence of the sea: return to the essentials”. Before you start, give yourself a moment to really get here, on Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele third.

Palazzo Pantaleo (Pass by)

Palazzo Pantaleo – Echoes of nobility and suspended memories. This palace was born in the eighteenth century, at a time when Taranto was crossed by noble families, subtle social balances, lives that flowed between appearance and reality. The Pantaleo family built it as a residence, but more than a house it was a ...

Ponte Girevole (Pass by)

Swivel Bridge – Symbolic passage between two worlds, very suggestive at sunset. This bridge was built at the end of the nineteenth century with a precise function: to allow the passage of military ships to the Arsenal. It's not a static bridge. It's a moving bridge. Its mechanism allows it to open by rotating on itself, creating a ...

Santuario Madonna Della Salute

  • 15m
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Health – Place of recollection and popular faith. The sanctuary has its roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at a time when Taranto experienced important transformations but remained deeply linked to popular religiosity. Devotion to Our Lady of Health developed especially in relation to ...

Via Duomo (Pass by)

Via Duomo – Street full of stories, between light and shadows of the past. Under your feet, the stones tell a continuity that spans centuries. This road already existed when Taranto was a vital center of Magna Graecia, and since then it has never stopped being crossed. Generations of people have walked it: nobles, merchants, religious, families. Everyone left ...

Via d'Aquino (Pass by)

Via Niccolò Thomas Aquinas – between memory, passages and introspection. This street was born between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Taranto expanded beyond the Old Town of Taranto. It is the moment when the city changes its face, opens up, organizes itself in larger, more orderly lines. Via d’Aquino soon becomes the ...

Location

Activity location

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    San Cataldo's Cathedral
    • Piazza Duomo
    • 74123, Taranto, Puglia, Italy

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Piazza Castello
    • Piazza Castello
    • 74123, Taranto, Puglia, Italy

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