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The Casco Viejo Digital Tour Guide
Scan a QR code, choose English or Spanish, and walk. Nine stops of audio-narrated history through Panama City's old quarter, with an interactive map that shows where you are — running entirely in your phone's browser.
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Everything a tour guide app does — without the app
No download, no account
It's a web page, not an app store install. Scan the code or tap the link and the guide opens instantly — nothing to sign up for, nothing to delete later.
Audio narration
Every stop has a spoken narration plus the full text to read along — pirate raids, the Golden Altar legend, canal intrigue, and the stories behind the plazas.
English & Español
Choose your language on the first screen and switch at any time. Every stop, direction, and menu is fully bilingual.
Interactive map
Numbered pins mark all nine stops along the 2.5 km route. Tap "find me" and the map shows your position among the colonial streets.
Works offline
Open the guide once with signal and it saves itself to your phone. After that it keeps working in flight mode, on cruise-ship days, or with no local SIM.
Remembers your progress
Close your browser, stop for a coffee at Plaza Bolívar, come back an hour later — the guide reopens in your language, right where you left off.
How it works
Three steps, zero friction
Scan the QR code
With your phone camera — or just tap "Open the Guide" if you're reading this on your phone. It works on any device with a browser.
Pick your language
English or Español. The guide loads all nine stops and saves itself for offline use while you still have Wi-Fi or signal.
Walk the route
Start at Avenida de los Mártires and finish at Plaza de Francia on the tip of the peninsula. Press play at each stop, follow the walking directions, and check the map whenever you need it.
The route
Nine stops · 2.5 km · 2–3 hours
- Avenida de los Mártires — the gateway to the old quarter
- Iglesia de San José — the Golden Altar that fooled a pirate
- Plaza de la Independencia — where Panama became a republic
- Metropolitan Cathedral — towers inlaid with mother-of-pearl
- Canal Museum — the Grand Hotel where the French dream began
- Plaza Bolívar — Bolívar's congress and the best coffee break
- Santo Domingo — the Flat Arch that helped win the canal
- Paseo Las Bóvedas — dungeons beneath the seawall promenade
- Plaza de Francia — the peninsula's tip and its finest sunset
Prefer a human?
The digital guide covers the highlights. Our guides grew up in these streets and cover everything else — on the free colonial walking tour, daily at 10am from Plaza de la Independencia.
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