for you, who know the Ciudad Vieja by day and have never heard what it says after dark

La noche de
la Ciudad Vieja

You walk the city with your headphones on, and the story you hear happens right where you are.

Colonial Montevideo locked itself in at night: when the curfew bell rang, everything shut, and anyone late to the gates slept outside. They say that one morning in 1809, when the gates were opened, a man in a shroud was found on the other side. He had come from the graveyard on his own two feet. Tonight a woman in the Palacio Salvo finds her lift stopping by itself on the seventh floor. She goes down and out into those streets. At every corner something doesn't add up. You go with her.

Book $U 390

40 min · Starts outside the Palacio Salvo

How it works

  1. Uno.

    The story happens where you are.

    As you pass the Artigas monument you learn that the Ciudadela's chapel stood right there, and that the dead of the King's time were buried under its floor.

  2. Dos.

    Stop, and there's more.

    Sit on a bench in the Plaza Matriz and the story goes back to 1857: yellow fever, every door shut, funeral carts you could hear four blocks away. Keep walking and you still get what matters.

  3. Tres.

    No need to check the map.

    When to leave the Teatro Solís and head up to the Plaza Matriz, the story itself tells you. Your phone can stay in your pocket.

Before you set out

Where you start and finish
Starts outside the Palacio Salvo. Ends where it began, back along the pedestrianised Sarandí.
40 minutes
In the evening, between 8 and 11 pm. The whole route is on lit streets.
The walk costs $U 390
Two of you can share one booking and one phone, an earbud each. The app is free and installs from our site, no App Store or Google Play.
Headphones, any pair
Best if you can still hear the street. The street is part of the walk too.
Signal or no signal
With data, it just plays. To walk without signal, download it before you go and the whole walk stays on your phone.

Book $U 390

Book for the day you choose, and we'll remind you the day before.

Free date changes · refund any time before you start

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The woman from the Salvo is invented; the city, its nights and what people say about them are not.