Self-guided walking tours in your headphones

Walks in Montevideo

The capital that looks at the river as if it were the sea. Ciudad Vieja, the port, the longest waterfront in the country, and neighbourhoods where the drum keeps the hour.

The Puerta de la Ciudadela, a stone arch standing on its own in the middle of the street, with people walking through it. Through it you can see Plaza Independencia and the statue of Artigas

Dentro de la muralla

A gatekeeper waits for a woman at a gate nobody shuts any more

A self-guided walking tour of Ciudad Vieja, with a story in your headphones. In 1829, for the first time, Montevideo leaves its gates open all night. An old gatekeeper goes to his post anyway, in case the woman he used to let through still comes.

$U 199 45 min Starts at the Puerta de la Ciudadela, on the Plaza Independencia side

Plaza Independencia at night, with the Artigas monument and the Palacio Salvo lit up

La noche de la Ciudad Vieja

By night, from Plaza Independencia to Plaza Matriz

Colonial Montevideo locked itself in at night. They say that one morning in 1809, when the gates were opened, a man in a shroud was found outside.

$U 390 40 min Starts outside the Palacio Salvo

Pocitos beach seen from Trouville, with the buildings along the rambla behind it

Lo que nunca te contaron de Pocitos

The Pocitos rambla and what lies beneath it

What you walk past every evening between Kibón and Trouville and nobody ever told you about: a stream in a pipe, a hotel with a pier out over the river, where the neighbourhood got its name. All of it true.

$U 390 40 min Starts at Kibón, on the Pocitos rambla

Photos: Santiago Mazzarovich · Felipe Restrepo Acosta · Cakebossmvd · CC BY-SA

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