How the pages are made

Every page on this site starts from an audio story written to be heard on the spot. Here we say where the information comes from, who checks it and what we never do.

The voice comes first, then the page

Sintiera makes audio tours: stories told in voice that you listen to in front of the place, phone in your pocket, in three lengths. Each story is written for that exact spot: what is in front of you, what cannot be seen, why it is there. The pages of this site are born from those stories. The excerpt you read and the preview you hear are the same words and the same voice heard on the spot: cut at most, never rewritten.

Where the facts come from

A page contains only what sits in a source we can show: the text of the story; the place's record in our archive, with its name, position and category; the official website of the museum or institution, for opening hours, tickets and notices; Wikidata and Wikipedia for dates, names and measurements, rephrased in our own words and never copied. If a question finds no answer in the sources, the page skips it: it does not make things up. At the bottom of every page there is the list of the sources used, with links.

Opening hours and prices

We report them only if we have read them on the official website, and always with the date of the reading. We check them again every month; time-limited notices, such as works or closures, expire on their own. Before you set off, the official website is the one that counts, and we link it on every page next to the practical information.

Who writes and who checks

The pages are prepared by Sintiera's editorial desk with the help of artificial intelligence tools, which work only on the sources listed. Every draft then goes through a check that compares the text with the sources sentence by sentence, rejects opening hours and prices without a date, and measures whether the page says something that cannot be found elsewhere. A page that fails the check is not published. Editorial responsibility lies with Sintiera.

The photos

We use only photographs under a free licence, Creative Commons or public domain. The author, the licence and the source page sit behind the button on every image: a tap opens it, and it closes on its own. The photos show the place as it is.

The audio preview

Every place page carries a stretch of the story, one to two minutes, that you can listen to for free, without the app and without signing up. It is cut from the real file, the one heard on the spot. The whole story, in three lengths, lives in the app.

If you spot a mistake

Every page shows the date of its last update. If something does not add up, write to privacy@sintiera.app: the correction goes in at the first useful round, and the date at the bottom of the page changes.

Page updated on 10 September 2026.