Original audio guides at culturally significant sites along the road to Rome — from the martyr's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral to the towers of San Gimignano, the shell-shaped square of Siena, and the Etruscan rock-tombs above Sutri. Free. In your headphones. While you walk.
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Listen to a few guides and the road starts to tell one story. Three threads run the length of it.
It starts in Canterbury, at the spot where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170 — the shrine that drew medieval England onto the road. From here Archbishop Sigeric set out for Rome in 990, and his diary still names the stages that became the Via Francigena.
Through the Tuscan heart of the walk the skyline bristles with towers — San Gimignano's fifteen surviving giants, the perfect ring of walls at Monteriggioni, and Siena, where the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo opens at the foot of the road.
The last stretch into Lazio is thick with legend: the Eucharistic miracle of Bolsena that gave the Church the feast of Corpus Christi, the popes who ruled from the palace at Viterbo, and the Etruscan amphitheatre carved straight from the rock at Sutri.
Same audio, but the app downloads each guide for offline use, starts playback when you approach a site by GPS, and remembers where you stopped. The web pages are perfect for planning at home. The app is for walking.
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