Redd Walks turns city walks into narratives — guided routes that surface the history, architecture, and human stories behind the streets you pass every day.
What it is. Redd Walks is a web app for self-guided audio walks. Each tour is a curated route through a city — Madrid, in the first instance — broken into numbered stops. At each stop you get a recorded narration (in your language of choice) that tells the story of the building, the street, or the neighbourhood you’re standing in. It works like a museum audio guide, except the museum is the whole city and the tour starts when you leave your front door.
Who it’s for. Travellers who are tired of walking past monuments they can’t name, and locals who want to see their own city with fresh eyes. It’s also aimed at language learners: every tour is available in multiple languages, so you can walk the same route in Spanish and English and let the city be your study material.
How it works. Tours use GPS triggers, so narration plays automatically when you arrive at a stop — no fiddling with maps while crossing a street. A day pass unlocks a tour; there’s no app to install, it runs in the browser. Payments and access are handled behind the scenes, so the experience stays lightweight: pick a tour, put in headphones, walk.
A concrete use case. The flagship tour, Old City Walk, takes about two hours through the historic centre of Madrid — eleven stops from the Puerta del Sol outwards, covering everything from a medieval market square to the street where a famous novel was written. A visitor can land in the afternoon and be walking that route by evening, hearing the story of each stop as they reach it.
Where it’s heading. More tours, more cities. Tours in production cover Retiro Park, the Literary Quarter, and themed walks around art and food. The long-term idea is a library of city walks that read a place the way a good guidebook never quite can — as a story told street by street.
Visit reddwalks.com to try a tour.
