BEFORE
GET INSPIRED AND PLAN
Discover the destinations and plan unique experiences.
MEXICOIN YOUR HANDS,JUST PRESS PLAY.
Because Mexico is lived in layers.
Discover it through its stories.
Immersive narrations and a deep layer of knowledge invite you to discover the Mexico hidden behind monuments, streets, plazas and landscapes — a country built by centuries of history, culture and memory.
More than tourism.
CHOOSE YOUR MEMBERSHIP
15 DAY MEMBERSHIP
For your visit. Activate it when you arrive, use it at your own pace.
- 12 professionally narrated capsules in Spanish, English or French, with orientation, directions and transcript.
- The Nelhuayotl — the layer of knowledge that goes far beyond the visit.
- 35 minutes in total to talk with and ask questions to your Digital Companion Don Luis, the keeper of the stories. They work across all your capsules: you decide how to spend them.
- As a welcome gift, one digital fine-art photograph by professional photographer Gonzalo Ramírez Soto, ready to download.
- Access to Other Stories — narratives that aren't tied to a single place.
- Access to What's New: exhibitions, events and everything the city has to offer.
- Mexican gastronomy — Anthology, Other Recipes curated with the extraordinary chef and researcher Yuri de Gortari, and Recommendations to keep savoring the city.
- The Gift Chest — musical landscapes created especially for Murmullos, the Murmullos Characters and stickers to carry the city with you wherever you go.
- Valid for 15 days from activation.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
A full year to explore. No groups, no crowds, no schedules.
- 31 capsules for a full year. Listen as many times as you like.
- In Spanish, English or French. Listen on site, from home, from any city in the world.
- 100 minutes in total to talk with and ask questions to your Digital Companion Don Luis, the keeper of the stories. They work across all your capsules: you decide how to spend them.
- As a welcome gift, three digital fine-art photographs by professional photographer Gonzalo Ramírez Soto, ready to download.
- Access to Other Stories — narratives that aren't tied to a single place.
- Access to What's New: exhibitions, events and everything the city has to offer.
- Mexican gastronomy — Anthology, Other Recipes curated with the extraordinary chef and researcher Yuri de Gortari, and Recommendations to keep savoring the city.
- The Gift Chest — musical landscapes created especially for Murmullos, the Murmullos Characters and stickers to carry the city with you wherever you go.
- Valid for 365 days from activation.
A membership with all the time in the world.
MEXICOIN YOUR HANDS,JUST PRESS PLAY.
Because Mexico is lived in layers.
Discover it through its stories.
Immersive narrations and a deep layer of knowledge invite you to discover the Mexico hidden behind monuments, streets, plazas and landscapes — a country built by centuries of history, culture and memory.
More than tourism.
CHOOSE YOUR MEMBERSHIP
15 DAY MEMBERSHIP
For your visit. Activate it when you arrive, use it at your own pace.
- 12 professionally narrated capsules in Spanish, English or French, with orientation, directions and transcript.
- The Nelhuayotl — the layer of knowledge that goes far beyond the visit.
- 35 minutes in total to talk with and ask questions to your Digital Companion Don Luis, the keeper of the stories. They work across all your capsules: you decide how to spend them.
- As a welcome gift, one digital fine-art photograph by professional photographer Gonzalo Ramírez Soto, ready to download.
- Access to Other Stories — narratives that aren't tied to a single place.
- Access to What's New: exhibitions, events and everything the city has to offer.
- Mexican gastronomy — Anthology, Other Recipes curated with the extraordinary chef and researcher Yuri de Gortari, and Recommendations to keep savoring the city.
- The Gift Chest — musical landscapes created especially for Murmullos, the Murmullos Characters and stickers to carry the city with you wherever you go.
- Valid for 15 days from activation.
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
A full year to explore. No groups, no crowds, no schedules.
- 31 capsules for a full year. Listen as many times as you like.
- In Spanish, English or French. Listen on site, from home, from any city in the world.
- 100 minutes in total to talk with and ask questions to your Digital Companion Don Luis, the keeper of the stories. They work across all your capsules: you decide how to spend them.
- As a welcome gift, three digital fine-art photographs by professional photographer Gonzalo Ramírez Soto, ready to download.
- Access to Other Stories — narratives that aren't tied to a single place.
- Access to What's New: exhibitions, events and everything the city has to offer.
- Mexican gastronomy — Anthology, Other Recipes curated with the extraordinary chef and researcher Yuri de Gortari, and Recommendations to keep savoring the city.
- The Gift Chest — musical landscapes created especially for Murmullos, the Murmullos Characters and stickers to carry the city with you wherever you go.
- Valid for 365 days from activation.
A membership with all the time in the world.
STORIES THAT CONNECT YOU
Immersive narratives told with soul.
KNOWLEDGE THAT GOES DEEPER
Explore the context, characters and events that shape every place.
COLLECT YOUR CAPSULES
Save your favorite capsules and relive them whenever you want.
TREASURE CHEST OF GIFTS
Special content, surprises and exclusive perks just for you.
DURING
EXPLORE AND LIVE IT
Let yourself be guided as you wander every corner.
AFTER
RELIVE AND KEEP IT
Save your capsules and relive each story whenever you wish.
LISTEN TO A SAMPLE
Plaza Garibaldi — The Home of Mariachi
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Reforma · Zona Rosa
ORIENTATIONHOW TO GET THERE
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NELHUAYOTLASK DON LUIS
ORIENTATION
Key information about the place and its context.
AUDIO
Professional narration to accompany your experience.
DEEP LAYER OF KNOWLEDGE
Nelhuayotl: historical, artistic, architectural and cultural insight to go far beyond the first visit.
HOW TO GET THERE
Routes, entrances and landmarks to find it easily.
TRANSCRIPT
The full text of the narration.
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English and French.
DON LUIS
The keeper of the stories, your digital companion. Talk with him and ask questions using your membership's pool of minutes.
WHO MURMULLOS IS FOR
Who is the Murmullos app recommended for?
Murmullos is a cultural platform featuring independent audio narratives and immersive stories. It is designed for history enthusiasts, independent travelers, and culture lovers looking for deep insights into Mexico's heritage with total freedom and autonomy, without being tied to rigid routes or maps.
TOURISTS
They want to go beyond the obvious and experience the city with true authenticity.
cultural audio guide Mexico, off the beaten path things to do in Mexico City, discover authentic historic sites
EXPATS & DIGITAL NOMADS
They seek to connect with the local culture and feel part of the place they temporarily call home.
cultural activities for expats in Mexico, connect with Mexico City history, understand Mexican heritage and culture
LONG-STAY EXECUTIVES
They need to understand the cultural context to make better decisions and build confident relationships.
historical context of Mexico for business executives, cultural insights about Mexican history, bite-sized cultural knowledge
DOMESTIC TOURISTS
Mexicans rediscovering their country with fresh eyes and a deep pride in their heritage.
stories of historic monuments in Mexico, Mexican city legends in audio, cultural history audio snippets
MURMULLOS is for everyone who believes that behind every place, there is a story waiting to be heard.
FAMILIES
They desire meaningful experiences that educate, inspire, and create lasting memories together.
family cultural tourism activities in Mexico, educational history stories to listen to as a family, learning history in an engaging way
MEXICO LOVERS
People from all over the world who love Mexico and want to explore it in depth.
explore Mexico in depth, secrets of Mexican history, audio stories about Mexico's art and heritage, cultural insights for Mexico lovers
A city is best understood when it's listened to. MURMULLOS makes every story count.
Destinations
31 story capsules through Mexico City, grouped by area so you can build your own itinerary. Tap any destination to discover its story.
NORTH
Devotion and memory
Sanctuaries, plazas and neighborhoods that tell the city's popular origins.
CHAPULTEPEC & POLANCO
Park, museums and modernity
The city's great cultural lung: castles, collections and elegant avenues.
HISTORIC CENTER
The viceregal heart
Palaces, convents and museums in the founding heart of Mexico.
REFORMA & NEIGHBORHOODS
Promenade, art and bohemia
The grand avenue and the neighborhoods reinventing urban life.
SOUTH
Old towns, gardens and the university
Cobblestone colonial towns, canals and the country's greatest university.
Audio guides and story capsules in Mexico City
Devotion and memory
Sanctuaries, plazas and neighborhoods that tell the city's popular origins.
La Villa — audio guide
Mexico's oldest faith, told in stone, gold and miracle.
México-Tacuba — audio guide
The causeway Cortés escaped along. The road that changed history.
Tlatelolco — audio guide
The largest market of the ancient world. Cuauhtémoc's last battle. The plaza where 1968 left a wound Mexico has yet to heal.
Santa María la Ribera — audio guide
A Moorish kiosk that traveled from New Orleans and never wanted to leave. The neighborhood intellectuals chose and time preserved.
Park, museums and modernity
The city's great cultural lung: castles, collections and elegant avenues.
Polanco — audio guide
A neighborhood born of exile — Spanish, Jewish, Lebanese — that became the most cosmopolitan in the city.
Chapultepec — audio guide
Sacred to the Mexica, home to viceroys, refuge of emperors. The park that has been everything and still belongs to everyone.
Anthropology, Modern Art, Tamayo and the Botanical Garden — audio guide
Four venues, one park, one undeniable argument: no city in the world packs so much into so little space.
Chapultepec Castle — audio guide
The only castle on the continent to host a European emperor. Maximilian dreamed it a palace. Mexico turned it into its own memory.
Soumaya Museum and Inbursa Aquarium — audio guide
Rodin above the city. The sea beneath it. One boulevard, two worlds you never saw coming.
Museo Casa de La Bola — audio guide
A time capsule. Don't forget to book ahead.
The viceregal heart
Palaces, convents and museums in the founding heart of Mexico.
Historic Center — audio guide
The Zócalo, the Templo Mayor, the archaeological windows, the Government Palace. This is, quite literally, the navel of the world — with the layers to prove it.
San Ildefonso — audio guide
The walls where Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros invented Mexican muralism. The Jesuit college that became a manifesto.
Postal Palace and MUNAL — audio guide
The most beautiful post office in the world and the national art museum under the same gilded sky. Two buildings that compete in splendor without either losing.
Bellas Artes and Alameda — audio guide
The marble that slowly sinks and the park that has seen it all. Unapologetic beauty, unfiltered history.
Iturbide Palace and Heras y Soto — audio guide
Two 18th-century baroque palaces the street doesn't announce. One was the home of an emperor. The other, a secret worth discovering.
San Hipólito, Franz Mayer and San Carlos — audio guide
The saint of the forgotten, the Flemish collector who loved Mexico like no one else, and the academy where the artists who painted a nation were trained.
Foro Valparaíso and World Cultures — audio guide
A double-helix staircase unique in the Western world, crowned with Talavera domes. Steps away, Mesopotamian tablets and terracotta warriors in a colonial courtyard.
Lerdo de Tejada Library and Former Convent of San Agustín — audio guide
An exiled Russian painted the world's revolutions onto the walls of a baroque library. Steps away, the facade of the convent that was Mexico's first National Library.
Monument to the Revolution — audio guide
Porfirio Díaz conceived it as his legislative palace. The Revolution that overthrew him turned it into its own monument. History has a sense of humor.
Plaza Garibaldi — audio guide
The home of mariachi and Mexico's vernacular music.
Muralism, Medicine and Numismatics — audio guide
The murals of the Ministry of Education, the Palace of the School of Medicine — once the seat of the Inquisition — and the National Numismatic Museum. Art, science and money within a few blocks of each other.
The Justo Sierra Synagogue — audio guide
Mexico's first Ashkenazi synagogue, hidden behind a discreet façade in the Historic Center. A Jewish community that arrived fleeing Europe and built its temple in the heart of the viceregal city.
Promenade, art and bohemia
The grand avenue and the neighborhoods reinventing urban life.
Reforma · Zona Rosa — audio guide
Carlota dreamed it imperial. In 1957 the Winged Victory flew off in an earthquake and came back gilded. The Angel and Zona Rosa — the boulevard and the neighborhood that frames it — are the most sophisticated portrait of this city.
Roma · Condesa — audio guide
The neighborhoods the 1985 earthquake destroyed and their own residents rebuilt. Art deco, jacarandas, terraces. The city that decided to reinvent itself — and never stopped.
Old towns, gardens and the university
Cobblestone colonial towns, canals and the country's greatest university.
Coyoacán — audio guide
The town the city absorbed but never tamed. Frida lived here. Trotsky died here. The weekend market still feels the same.
San Ángel — audio guide
17th-century cobblestones, overflowing bougainvillea and an elegance that needs no effort and no announcement.
Churubusco — audio guide
One of the most dramatic battles of the Mexican–American War was fought here. A group of Irish soldiers chose to fight for Mexico — and paid a brutal price for that loyalty.
Ciudad Universitaria — audio guide
The campus UNESCO named a World Heritage Site. Architecture, murals, a volcano on the horizon. The most ambitious project of modern Mexico.
UNAM · Pavilion of Biodiversity — audio guide
The most technologically advanced building in Latin America, dedicated to cataloging and preserving life in a country that hosts 12% of the planet's species.
Tlalpan — audio guide
The oldest town the city reached but never erased. Intact colonial architecture, a neighborhood market, and the kind of silence that no longer exists anywhere else.
Xochimilco — audio guide
The chinampas that fed Tenochtitlán are still there, exactly there. The water, the colors, the axolotls. A World Heritage Site you can touch.
CHOOSE YOUR MEMBERSHIP
Murmullos is the perfect cultural gift: a piece of Mexico to share with your friends abroad. Untold stories, local anecdotes and authentic perspectives in an immersive experience to discover the soul of Mexico City.
Frequently asked questions
How is Murmullos different from a group tour?
Murmullos is a self-guided audio experience of Mexico City that you listen to at your own pace, with no groups, no live guide, and no fixed schedule. Whether your plan includes the Angel of Independence and Zona Rosa, Plaza Garibaldi at night, or a quiet Sunday in Coyoacán, you decide when to pause, replay, or go deeper — no crowds, and no one setting the pace for you.
Is it a podcast, an audio guide, or something different?
Murmullos is not an entertainment podcast or a generic museum audio guide: it's its own kind of experience, built in two layers. A warm narration tells the story of each place the way a knowledgeable friend would as you walk together; a second layer goes deeper with dates, dimensions, and facts verified through academic sources.
Can Murmullos be enjoyed without traveling to Mexico?
Yes. Both the 15 Day Membership and the Annual Membership let you explore Mexico City remotely: you can plan a trip, relive places you've already visited, or simply enjoy the history of Mexico City from anywhere in the world, with no need to be there in person.
Does the Murmullos app need an internet connection?
Only the first time you open each capsule. That's why we recommend downloading your audio capsules before leaving home or your hotel: that way you can listen without internet, even if signal drops along the way in Mexico City.
What languages is Murmullos available in?
At launch, Murmullos is available in Spanish, English, and French. Italian, German, and Portuguese are coming soon.
What devices does Murmullos work on?
Murmullos is a web app: it opens directly from the browser on any device (iPhone, Android, tablet or computer), and you can install it to your phone's home screen to use it like an app. It is not downloaded from any app store.
What's the difference between the 15 Day Membership and the Annual Membership?
The 15 Day Membership lets you choose 12 of the 31 available capsules and enjoy them for 15 days from activation, with 35 minutes in total to ask Don Luis questions. The Annual Membership includes all 31 capsules for 365 days from activation, with 100 minutes in total for Don Luis. Minutes work across all capsules and you decide how to spend them.
What happens when my 15 Day Membership expires?
Your access deactivates automatically 15 days after activation. You can then purchase another 15 Day Membership or move to the Annual Membership from the app.
Who creates the content in Murmullos? Is it historically verified?
Every Murmullos capsule is written using academic and institutional sources — INAH, UNAM, Mexico's Secretaría de Cultura, and historical archives — never generic sources like Wikipedia. All historical content is reviewed by a UNAM-trained historian before publication.
How is payment processed in Murmullos? Is it safe to buy through the app?
Payments are processed through Stripe, one of the most trusted payment platforms in the world. Murmullos never stores your card data.
Does Murmullos offer refunds?
Since content is granted immediate access, we don't offer refunds once access has been activated. If you run into a technical issue, reach out and we'll help resolve it.
Does Murmullos have an interactive map or use geolocation?
No. Murmullos works through manual activation: you choose which capsule to listen to from the app, with no dependence on GPS or an interactive map. This means you can enjoy each capsule whether you're walking through Mexico City or listening from home, without signal or location affecting the experience.
How long does each Murmullos audio capsule last?
Each Murmullos capsule runs between 3 and 6 minutes, designed to be heard in full while you walk, rest at a café, or simply take a moment to learn the story behind the place.
How many capsules does Murmullos offer in Mexico City?
Murmullos offers 31 audio capsules about the most iconic corners of Mexico City: from Chapultepec Castle, the Soumaya Museum, and Chapultepec Forest, to the Historic Center with Bellas Artes, Palacio Postal, and Plaza Garibaldi, all the way to Coyoacán, San Ángel, Ciudad Universitaria, and Xochimilco in the south. Each zone groups several capsules so you can build your own itinerary.
Can Murmullos help plan a Mexico City trip before arriving?
Yes. Many users listen to Murmullos capsules before traveling to decide what to see — whether that's Chapultepec Castle and its forest, the Historic Center with Bellas Artes and the Zócalo, or the bohemian charm of Coyoacán and San Ángel — and arrive with real historical context, not generic trivia. Others use it after their trip to relive what they experienced. It works equally well before, during, and after a visit to Mexico City.
Is Murmullos only available in Mexico City?
For now, Murmullos focuses on Mexico City with 31 audio capsules. Expansion to other cities in Mexico is in development for future phases.
Do I need to be physically at the location to listen to a Murmullos capsule?
Not necessarily. Murmullos capsules are narrated so the experience feels just as immersive whether you're standing in front of the landmark or listening from anywhere in the world.
Where do I download the Murmullos app?
There is nothing to download: Murmullos is a web app that opens right in your browser, on your phone or computer. If you want it as an icon on your home screen, open it and tap Share or the browser menu → Add to Home Screen.
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What our listeners say
5.0 out of 5Based on 4 Google reviews
“Es una aplicación muy bien hecha, muy profesional, con información muy valiosa para cualquiera que tenga interés en México. La recomiendo ampliamente.”
“La app tiene muy buena imagen, es muy fácil acceder a la información. El contenido de los audios es muy interesante. Es una muy buena herramienta para conocer las historias de la CDMX.”
“Interesante experiencia. Te hace detenerte y contemplar sitios cotidianos con nuevos ojos. Despierta el deseo de conocer mucho más.”
“Murmullos definitivamente es un lugar para aprender disfrutando de la magnificencia de la Ciudad de México, yo lo tomé en versión beta y cada historia lleva de la mano al oyente creando una inmersión única y duradera de cultura en cada cápsula.”