Walking Tours
Every walk tells a story.
GPS-guided audio tours narrated by storytellers who know the surprising history most people walk right past.
Argentina
Buenos Aires: San Telmo & La Boca
Walk the soul of Buenos Aires — from the revolutionary Plaza de Mayo through the cobblestoned tango district of San Telmo to the vivid painted houses of La Boca.
Buenos Aires: The Paris of the South
Buenos Aires was founded twice — once in fifteen thirty-five, abandoned, and refounded in fifteen eighty by Juan de Garay. For two hundred and fifty years it was a backwater of the Spanish Empire, prohibited from trading directly with Europe and forced to smuggle goods through Montevideo. Then in eighteen ten it declared independence, and in the decades that followed it became one of the fastest-growing cities in the world — importing architecture, culture, and millions of immigrants from Italy, Spain, France, and Eastern Europe, building a city that the Argentines called 'the Paris of the South.' The Tango was born in the brothels and conventillos of La Boca and San Telmo. Evita is buried in Recoleta. The mothers of the disappeared circled the Plaza de Mayo every Thursday for decades. This city has lived at operatic intensity for two centuries, and the streets carry all of it.
Australia
Melbourne: Laneways, Fitzroy & the Yarra
Walk Australia's cultural capital — through the famous graffiti laneways of the CBD, into the cafe-and-gallery lined streets of Fitzroy, along the Yarra River, and past the world-class arts precinct that made Melbourne famous for living well.
Sydney: Convict Barracks to Hidden Laneways — Secret CBD
From a barracks where rat-hoarded convict artifacts were found in the ceiling, past a hospital paid for in rum, through a laneway where 180 empty birdcages play the songs of vanished species, to a headland named after a woman who broke her partner's fishing spear for dining with the Governor.
Sydney: Convicts, Plague & Rebellion — The Rocks
Walk the alleyways where convicts roamed free after dark, past an open sewer nicknamed the Suez Canal, through a tunnel hacked from sandstone by hand, and into the neighbourhood that construction workers saved from demolition by refusing to build. Every cobblestone in The Rocks has a body count.
Sydney: Harbour Icons — Circular Quay to Mrs Macquarie's Chair
From the bridge whose pylons are purely decorative to the opera house plucked from the reject pile, past a 'living fossil' tree whose wild location is classified, to a sandstone bench carved by convicts so the Governor's wife could watch for ships from England.
Sydney: Opera House, Harbour & the Rocks
Stand beneath the sails of the most recognised building on earth, walk the Circular Quay where the First Fleet anchored in 1788, explore The Rocks where convicts built a colony, cross the Harbour Bridge on foot for the view that defines Australia, and swim in the harbourside ocean pool before the city wakes up.
Austria
Salzburg Town Walk
A 2 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Austria. Visit Salzburg Town Walk, Mozartplatz, Residenzplatz, and New Residenz, Glockenspiel — with narrated stories at every stop.
Salzburg: Mozart, Music & the Altstadt
Walk the most musical city in the world — from Mozart's birthplace through the baroque squares of the Altstadt, across the Salzach to the Mirabell Gardens, and up to the Hohensalzburg fortress high above the rooftops.
Vienna City Walk
A 2.5 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Austria. Visit Vienna City Walk, Café Sacher, Albertinaplatz, and Kärntner Strasse — with narrated stories at every stop.
Vienna: Habsburgs, Coffee Houses & the Ring
Stand at the gothic heart of Vienna, walk the Ringstrasse past the Opera and Parliament, detour into the Naschmarkt for apricot Marillenknoedel and debate, and understand how a city that ruled half of Europe became the world's greatest exporter of music, psychoanalysis, and coffee.
Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen's
A guided tour of Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen's in Austria with 12 stops. Highlights include St. Stephen's Cathedral, Circling the Exterior, and Main Entrance.
Vienna's Ringstrasse Tour
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Austria. Visit Vienna Ringstrasse Tram Tour, Opernring Tram Stop, Schwarzenbergplatz, and Weihburggasse — with narrated stories at every stop.
Belgium
Bruges: The Medieval Heart
Bruges became one of the richest cities in Europe by the fourteenth century, a major wool and cloth trading hub connecting England, Flanders, and the Mediterranean. Then the Zwin channel silted up around fifteen hundred, trade moved to Antwerp, and Bruges was largely forgotten for four hundred years. That forgetting saved it. While most medieval European cities were demolished and rebuilt in the industrial era, Bruges survived intact — its Gothic guild houses, medieval canals, and fifteenth-century churches preserved not by design but by economic irrelevance. What you are about to walk through is a medieval trading city, almost perfectly preserved, now the most visited destination in Belgium.
Bruges: The Medieval Masterpiece
Walk the most perfectly preserved medieval city in northern Europe — from the cobblestoned Markt with its great belfry tower, through the lace-and-chocolate lined lanes to the swans of the Minnewater lake.
Brussels: Grand-Place and the Lower Town
Brussels is a city that rebuilt its most beautiful square in four years after French artillery destroyed it in sixteen ninety-five — and then made it more beautiful than before. It is a city of two languages, three regions, and nineteen municipalities that somehow functions as both the Belgian capital and the unofficial capital of the European Union. It contains the most complete Art Nouveau streetscape in the world, the world's first covered shopping arcade, a tiny bronze boy urinating who has been dressed in over one thousand costumes, and a gene pool of genius that produced surrealism, the saxophone, Belgian waffles, and the European project. This walk covers the medieval lower town, from Grand-Place west to the Cantillon brewery and east to the Cathedral.
Medieval City Centre
Walk through Ghent's remarkably intact medieval centre — a city of three towers, a Flemish Primitive masterpiece, and canals that made it the richest city in northern Europe.
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro: Santa Teresa & Historic Centre
Walk the most dramatic city on earth — through the bohemian hilltop village of Santa Teresa, down to the colonial Lapa district with its baroque arches, and into the historic centro where Rio's story began.
São Paulo: Street Art, Paulista & Liberdade
Walk South America's largest city through three of its most distinct personalities — the street-art-covered lanes of Vila Madalena, the cultural powerhouses of Avenida Paulista, and the largest Japanese community outside Japan in the Liberdade neighbourhood.
Canada
Montréal: Old City, Plateau & the Soul of French Canada
Start inside the jewel-box Notre-Dame Basilica, trace the birthplace of Canada at Pointe-à-Callière, walk the Old Port to the harbour chapel, then head north into the Plateau — smoked meat sandwiches, Schwartz's lineups, and Montreal's legendary joie de vivre.
The Distillery District & Old Town
Walk through Canada's finest Victorian industrial architecture and Toronto's oldest neighbourhoods.
Vancouver: Gastown, Chinatown & the Seawall
Walk Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods — from the Victorian brick of Gastown through North America's oldest Chinatown to the False Creek seawall, with the mountains and Pacific always in view.
Colombia
El Centro & Transformation
Walk through the city that transformed itself from the world's most dangerous to a model of urban reinvention — exploring the public art, cable cars, and civic projects that rewrote Medellín's story.
La Candelaria Historic Centre
Explore Bogotá's colonial heart, where centuries of history layer over each other on every cobblestone street.
Medellín: From Cartel to Cultural Capital
Walk the most dramatic urban comeback story of the twenty-first century — from the outdoor museum of Plaza Botero through the innovation district of El Centro to El Poblado's flower-filled streets and the cable cars that connected the hillside comunas to the city below.
Walled City: Cartagena's Colonial Heart
Step through the clock tower into five centuries of Caribbean history — pirate sieges, the Inquisition, enslaved people who built and defended this city, and the pastel-painted streets that made Cartagena one of South America's most beautiful colonial centres.
Croatia
Dubrovnik: Pearl of the Adriatic
For four hundred and fifty years, the Republic of Ragusa governed itself as a free city-state surrounded by empires — Ottoman to the east, Venetian to the north, Habsburg to the west — and survived them all through diplomacy, trade, and sheer institutional intelligence. The city you are about to walk through was their stage set: a compact limestone world of palaces, churches, fountains, and sea walls, mostly baroque because a catastrophic earthquake in sixteen sixty-seven destroyed the medieval city almost completely and Ragusa rebuilt itself from scratch in two years. Walk slowly. The limestone on Stradun has been polished to a mirror shine by eight centuries of feet. The sea walls are real. The history is layered so deep that even the most visited corner of Croatia has not yet been fully understood.
Split: The Living Palace
Split is not a museum. Three thousand people live inside the walls of a Roman emperor's retirement palace, in apartments carved from ancient stone, sleeping above two-thousand-year-old corridors, hanging their laundry from windows that Diocletian once looked through. The palace was built between two hundred and ninety-five and three oh five AD, and it has never been empty since the seventh century, when refugees from the fallen Roman city of Salona moved in and simply started living. What you are about to walk through is the oldest continuously inhabited palace in the world.
Cuba
Havana: La Habana Vieja
Step into a city unlike any other — where Spanish baroque cathedrals cast shadows on vintage Chevrolets, son music drifts from doorways, and every crumbling wall tells a story of revolution and resilience.
Havana: The Frozen City
Havana was founded by the Spanish in fifteen nineteen and grew to become the richest city in the Caribbean — a fortress city controlling the flow of silver and sugar between the New World and Spain, later a playground of American money in the nineteen forties and fifties, then frozen in place by the revolution of nineteen fifty-nine and the US trade embargo that followed. The American cars from the nineteen fifties still run because they have to. The buildings are crumbling because there is no money to restore them. And Habana Vieja — the Old Havana, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since nineteen eighty-two — remains one of the most atmospheric urban environments in the world: a layer cake of Spanish colonial, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Art Deco architecture, alive with music, damp with sea air, and lit at night like a dream.
Czech Republic
Prague City Walk
A 18-stop walking tour through the heart of Czech Republic. Visit National Museum, Walking Wenceslas Square, Velvet Revolution, and Lucerna Arcade — with narrated stories at every stop.
Prague: Castle Quarter & Malá Strana
Downhill from Strahov Monastery — cursed crown jewels, the Defenestration window, Kafka writing studio, Lennon Wall, and crawling babies.
Prague: Clocks, Castles & the Bohemian Soul
Watch the Astronomical Clock strike the hour, cross Charles Bridge past thirty baroque saints, climb to Prague Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral, walk the Golden Lane where Franz Kafka's sister lived, and descend through the medieval Jewish Quarter that survived everything the twentieth century threw at it.
Prague: Old Town & Charles Bridge
The 27 crosses, the blinded clockmaker, the Golem in the attic, 12 layers of graves, and the saint they threw off the bridge.
Denmark
Classic Copenhagen Walk
From the candy-coloured canal of Nyhavn to the twinkling lights of Tivoli Gardens, this walk winds through Copenhagen's old city, past hidden medieval alleys, a tower you climb on horseback, a castle with invisible music, and a food market built on centuries of trade. You'll discover how a beer magnate built a world-class museum, why a locksmith spent decades building the most complex clock on earth, and how a fairy-tale writer found inspiration in a sailor's dive.
Copenhagen — Christianshavn & the Alternative Side
Explore the counterculture and waterfront side of Copenhagen. Climb past the golden spiral of Our Saviour's Church, stroll along Amsterdam-inspired canals, enter the anarchist commune of Christiania, discover the warehouse where Noma was born, cross a bridge designed by Olafur Eliasson, and end at the only palace on earth housing all three branches of government.
Copenhagen: Nyhavn to Christiania
Stroll Copenhagen's most iconic waterfront — from the candy-coloured townhouses of Nyhavn to the Tivoli Gardens, Christiansborg Palace, and the free-spirited Christiania.
France
Biarritz — Hidden Basque Side
Discover the Biarritz the tourists miss. Start at the covered market where Basque farmers have sold espelette peppers and ewe's milk cheese since 1885, find a hidden chapel built by an empress homesick for Mexico, stand before a Russian Orthodox church funded by a tsar, stumble on two thousand pieces of Asian art, watch the world's fastest ball sport in a Basque pelota court, then walk the cliffs from a medieval whaling cove to a lighthouse with 248 steps and a lovers' cave where the Atlantic swallowed two star-crossed souls.
Biarritz: Imperial Seafront Walk
From an empress's seaside palace to the birthplace of European surfing, this walk traces Biarritz's wild reinvention — from Basque whaling village to imperial playground to surf capital. You'll walk past art deco casinos, peer into a Belle Epoque tearoom that served queens, cross a metal bridge to a rock in the Atlantic, and end on the beach where a Hollywood screenwriter accidentally started a revolution.
Champs-Élysées Walk
A 15-stop walking tour through the heart of France. Visit Champs-Élysées Walk, Approaching the Arc de Triomphe, Exploring the Base of the Arc, and Climbing the Arc de Triomphe — with narrated stories at every stop.
Historic Paris
A 21-stop walking tour through the heart of France. Visit Historic Paris Walk, Point Zero, Notre-Dame’s Façade, and Notre-Dame’s Interior — with narrated stories at every stop.
Paris: Covered Passages — Secret Shopping Arcades
The hidden glass-roofed arcades of 19th-century Paris — a pneumatic tube library, a sabotaged passage, scones under a soaring dome, and a restaurant where waiters write the bill on the tablecloth.
Paris: Le Marais — Mansions, Rebels & Falafel
Through medieval courtyards, past the melted hearts of kings, to Europe's best falafel. Proust's cork-lined bedroom, Victor Hugo's square, and Louis XVI's diary entry for the day the Bastille fell: nothing.
Paris: Le Marais, Notre-Dame & the Heart of the City
Stand on the charred stones where Notre-Dame is rising again, cross to the Left Bank for Shakespeare and Company, return over the Pont Neuf, walk through the Place des Vosges — Paris's oldest and most perfect square — into the Marais where the Jewish quarter and the gay village share the same cobblestones, and end at the Centre Pompidou where the art world moved in nineteen seventy-seven.
Paris: Montmartre — Artists, Rebels & Sacré-Cœur
From the Moulin Rouge to Sacré-Cœur — Van Gogh's apartment, the studio where Picasso invented Cubism, and the bar where he traded a painting for drinks that later sold for forty million dollars.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A guided tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery in France with 16 stops. Highlights include Père Lachaise Cemetery, The Columbarium, and Oscar Wilde.
Rue Cler Walk
A 19-stop walking tour through the heart of France. Visit A Rue Cler Walk, Café Roussillon, Petit Bateau, and Au Bon Jardinier — with narrated stories at every stop.
The Louvre
A 22-stop walking tour through the heart of France. Visit The Louvre Museum, Pre-Classical Greek Statues, Venus de Milo, and Statues from Golden Age Greece — with narrated stories at every stop.
The Orsay Museum
A guided tour of The Orsay Museum in France with 19 stops. Highlights include The Orsay Museum, Ingres: The Source, and Cabanel: The Birth of Venus.
Versailles Palace
A guided tour of Versailles Palace in France with 22 stops. Highlights include The Palace of Versailles, Entering the Château, and Royal Chapel.
Germany
Berlin — Prenzlauer Berg Walk
A 15-stop walking tour through the heart of Germany. Visit Prenzlauer Berg Walk , Metzer Eck Pub , Wasserturm (Water Tower) , and Rykestrasse Synagogue — with narrated stories at every stop.
Berlin City Walk
A 4 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Germany. Visit Eberstrasse: The Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, and Memorial to Murdered Jews of Europe — with narrated stories at every stop.
Berlin: Museum Island to Alexanderplatz
From the royal tombs of the Berliner Dom through the lost Jewish quarter, past art nouveau courtyards and Cold War relics, to the TV Tower that accidentally created a crucifix.
Berlin: Prenzlauer Berg — East Berlin's Bohemian Side
Walk the former death strip, explore a Cold War brewery, discover the water tower with a dark secret, and end at the synagogue that survived Kristallnacht because the Nazis feared fire.
Berlin: Wall to Wall — Cold War Walk
Trace the ghost of the Berlin Wall from Checkpoint Charlie to the Reichstag. Seven stops through the heart of Cold War Berlin — from the infamous border crossing to the Nazi terror archives, across the death strip of Potsdamer Platz, through the Holocaust Memorial, and ending at the Brandenburg Gate and the reunified parliament.
Berlin: Wall, Bunker & the Weight of History
Stand at the gate where Kennedy spoke and Reagan demanded it be torn down, walk the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, peer into Hitler's bunker site, cross Checkpoint Charlie, walk a surviving stretch of the Wall at the East Side Gallery, and feel the weight of a century that happened here.
Best of the Rhine
A 22-stop walking tour through the heart of Germany. Visit Rhine River and Castles, Km 528: Niederwald, Km 530: Ehrenfels, and Km 533: Rheinstein, Reichenstein — with narrated stories at every stop.
Munich City Walk
A 19-stop walking tour through the heart of Germany. Visit Munich City Walk, St. Peter’s Church, Viktualienmarkt, and Jewish Synagogue — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rothenburg Town Walk
A 15-stop walking tour through the heart of Germany. Visit St. George’s Fountain, Old Town Hall, St. Jakob's Church: Exterior, and St. Jakob's Church: Interior — with narrated stories at every stop.
Greece
Athens — Acropolis
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Greece. Visit The Acropolis, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Propylaea, and Temple of Athena Nike — with narrated stories at every stop.
Athens — Ancient Agora
A 16-stop walking tour through the heart of Greece. Visit Ancient Agora, Panathenaic Way, Stoa of Attalos, and Agora Museum — with narrated stories at every stop.
Athens — City Walk
A 20-stop walking tour through the heart of Greece. Visit Athens City Walk, Tomb of Unknown Soldier, Evzone Guards, Greek Parliament, and Walking Through Syntagma Square — with narrated stories at every stop.
Athens — National Archaeological Museum
A guided tour of Athens — National Archaeological Museum in Greece with 20 stops. Highlights include National Archeological Museum, Cycladic Figurines, and Mycenaean Treasures.
Athens: The Acropolis, Agora & the Cradle of Democracy
Climb to the Parthenon as dawn light hits the marble, descend to the Agora where Socrates was tried and sentenced, walk through the Plaka to the Tower of the Winds, explore the spectacular Acropolis Museum, and end at the Temple of Olympian Zeus — the largest temple ever built in Greece.
Santorini: The Caldera Walk to Oia
Walk the edge of one of the world's most dramatic volcanic calderas — from Fira's clifftop capital through the whitewashed villages of Firostefani and Imerovigli to the legendary sunset at Oia.
Hong Kong
Central & Kowloon: Neon, Temples & the Harbour
Cross the harbour on the iconic Star Ferry, wander through Kowloon's temple streets and night markets, then cross to Hong Kong Island for colonial lanes, a century-old tram ride, and cocktails at Lan Kwai Fong.
Central & SoHo: Hong Kong Island Walk
Cross the harbour on the iconic Star Ferry, then explore Hong Kong Island's beating heart — colonial facades beside glass towers, incense-filled temples on Hollywood Road, the world's longest outdoor escalator, and the buzzing laneways where finance meets bohemia.
Hungary
Budapest: The Castle District
Walk the storied hilltop of Buda — from fairytale turrets at Fisherman's Bastion to the Royal Palace, with sweeping views over the Danube and Pest below.
Classic Budapest Walk
Two cities, one river, a thousand years of history. This walk takes you from the cafés of Pest across the Chain Bridge to the medieval Castle Hill of Buda, passing the mummified right hand of a dead king, a memorial of sixty iron shoes, a parliament covered in forty kilos of gold, a bridge born from a blocked funeral, and a church that spent a hundred and forty-five years as a mosque. You'll end at Fisherman's Bastion at sunset, looking across the Danube at the parliament lighting up on the other side.
Iceland
Old Town & Hallgrímskirkja
Explore the world's northernmost capital -- a compact city of colourful corrugated houses, geothermal pools, Viking heritage, and one of the most striking churches in the world.
Reykjavík: Downhill to the Sea
Reykjavík is the smallest capital in Europe and one of the youngest — only about four hundred people lived here when George Washington was president. This walk starts at the basalt-column church on the highest hill, descends through the rainbow street, down the main shopping drag, past the hot dog stand Bill Clinton ate at, across the oldest parliament square in the world (founded nine hundred and thirty AD), around a little pond of swans and ducks, past an excavated thousand-year-old longhouse, out to a glass concert hall that the nation almost couldn't afford to finish, and ends on a hill looking out to sea — at the statue of the first Viking who ever lived here.
Reykjavik: Fire, Ice & the Midnight Sun
Walk the world's northernmost capital — from the concrete spire of Hallgrímskirkja church over the rainbow-painted rooftops to the harbour where Viking longships once landed, the geothermal swimming pools where Icelanders solve everything, and the museums that explain how this tiny nation survived on the edge of the world.
India
Jaipur: Palace, Observatory & the Pink City Bazaars
Stand before Jaipur's five-storey honeycomb facade, decode the astronomical genius of Jantar Mantar, wander through the City Palace's marble courtyards, haggle in the gemstone bazaars, and follow the petal-pink walls of India's most perfectly planned city.
Mumbai: Colonial Fort & Gateway of India
Walk the grandest remnant of the British Raj — from the triumphal arch of the Gateway of India through the Victorian Gothic campus of the University and High Court to the Art Deco promenade of Marine Drive.
Mumbai: Gateway to India
Mumbai is the financial capital of India, the home of Bollywood, and the most densely populated city on earth — twenty-one million people on a narrow peninsula that was, until the British connected seven islands with causeways in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an archipelago. The city exists because of cotton and opium: the British East India Company made its first fortune here trading both, and the wealth that flowed in built the extraordinary Victorian Gothic and Edwardian buildings of South Mumbai — the CST railway terminus, the High Court, the University of Mumbai, the General Post Office — a city of institutional ambition in the tropics, built on land literally reclaimed from the sea. Walk slowly. The proportions are enormous.
Ireland
Dublin City Walk 1: South Bank
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Ireland. Visit Dublin City Walk: Part One , Walking to Mansion House, Grafton Street, and More Grafton Street — with narrated stories at every stop.
Dublin City Walk 2: O'Connell Street
A 10-stop walking tour through the heart of Ireland. Visit Dublin City Walk: Part Two, The Daniel O'Connell Monument, More Statues of Patriots, and The General Post Office — with narrated stories at every stop.
Dublin: Literary Pubs & Georgian Streets
Follow in the footsteps of Joyce, Beckett, and Wilde through Dublin's Georgian squares, the Book of Kells, Temple Bar's cobblestones, and the Guinness Storehouse.
Italy
Assisi Town Walk
A 13-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Assisi Town Walk, Roman Amphitheater, Porta Perlici, and Assisi's Back Lanes — with narrated stories at every stop.
Assisi's Basilica of St. Francis
A 13-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Assisi's Basilica of St. Francis, Lower Basilica Nave, Tomb, and Lower Basilica: Nave — with narrated stories at every stop.
Florence — A Renaissance Walk
A 14-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Florence: A Renaissance Walk, Bell Tower, Brunelleschi’s Dome, and Baptistery, Ghiberti’s Bronze Doors — with narrated stories at every stop.
Florence — Bargello Museum
A guided tour of Florence — Bargello Museum in Italy with 13 stops. Highlights include The Bargello Museum, Bacchus: Michelangelo, and Pitti Tondo: Michelangelo.
Florence — Museum of San Marco
A guided tour of Florence — Museum of San Marco in Italy with 19 stops. Highlights include The Museum of San Marco, Deposition from the Cross, and Triptych of St. Peter Martyr.
Florence — The Accademia: Michelangelo's David
A 7-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit The Accademia, Bust of Michelangelo, The Prisoners, and Lesser Sights near David — with narrated stories at every stop.
Florence — Uffizi Gallery Tour
A 20-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit The Uffizi Gallery, Giotto: Madonna and Child, Simone Martini: Annunciation, and Gentile da Fabriano: Adoration of Magi — with narrated stories at every stop.
Florence: Duomo to Ponte Vecchio — The Renaissance Mile
The essential Florence walk — lampredotto at the market, how Brunelleschi built the dome without scaffolding, the square where Savonarola burned, and why butchers were kicked off the bridge.
Florence: Oltrarno — The Artisan Side
Cross the bridge to the real Florence — plague-era wine windows, an arsenic murder in a palazzo, teenage Michelangelo's crucifix, and Gregorian chant at sunset on the hill.
Florence: The Renaissance Circuit
Walk through the cradle of the Renaissance — from Brunelleschi's dome to the Uffizi, across the Ponte Vecchio, and into the artisan Oltrarno.
Milan's Duomo Neighborhood
A 11-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Milan's Duomo Neighborhood, Duomo: Exterior, Duomo: View from Side, and Duomo Interior: Nave — with narrated stories at every stop.
Naples City Walk
A 23-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Naples City Walk, Galleria Principe di Napoli , Via Bellini, Teatro Bellini, Piazza Bellini, and Piazza Bellini — with narrated stories at every stop.
Naples' Archaeological Museum
A guided tour of Naples' Archaeological Museum in Italy with 14 stops. Highlights include Naples' Archaeological Museum , Roman Portrait Busts , and Farnese Collection.
Pompeii
A 18-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Pompeii, Pompeii's Streets, Forum, and Mt. Vesuvius — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Ancient to Renaissance Walk
From the blood-soaked arena of the Colosseum to the flower market where a philosopher was burned alive, this walk covers two thousand years of history in a single morning. You'll stand where emperors lived, where the Roman Republic died, where Michelangelo redesigned a hilltop, and where Bernini trolled his rivals with a stone elephant. Ancient Rome, Renaissance Rome, and the living city — all in one epic walk.
Rome — Heart of Rome
A 16-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit A Walk Through the Heart of Rome, Palazzo Farnese, To Victor Emanuel II Boulevard , and Statue Called Pasquino — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Jewish Ghetto
A 8-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Jewish Ghetto, Santa Maria della Pieta, Synagogue, Jewish Museum, and Largo 16 Ottobre — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Ostia Antica
A 13-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Ostia Antica, Necropolis, Porta Romana Gate, and Republican Warehouses — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Sistine Chapel
A 9-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit The Sistine Chapel, Entering the Chapel, Creation of Man, and Nine Scenes from Genesis — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — St. Peter's Basilica
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit St. Peter’s Basilica, St. Peter’s Square, The Pope’s World, and Vatican City — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — The Colosseum
A 11-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Roman Colosseum, Circling the Colosseum's Exterior, View of the Arena, and Gladiator Games — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — The Pantheon
A 9-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit The Roman Pantheon, Portico, Interior: Under the Dome, and Main Altar — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — The Roman Forum
A 16-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Roman Forum, Arch of Titus, Rome in a Nutshell, and Basilica of Constantine — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Trastevere
A 7-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit A Trastevere Walk, Piazza in Piscinula, Trastevere's Back Lanes, and Church of Saint Cecilia — with narrated stories at every stop.
Rome — Vatican Museums
A guided tour of Rome — Vatican Museums in Italy with 14 stops. Highlights include The Vatican Museums, Apollo Belvedere, and Laocoön.
Rome — Vatican Pinacoteca
A 13-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Vatican Pinacoteca , Niccolò: Last Judgment, Giotto: Stefaneschi Triptych, and Melozzo: Angel Musicians — with narrated stories at every stop.
Siena City Walk
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Siena City Walk, City Hall , Fountain of Joy, and Via di Città — with narrated stories at every stop.
Venice — Frari Church
A guided tour of Venice — Frari Church in Italy with 11 stops. Highlights include The Frari Church, Nave, and Titian: Assumption of Mary.
Venice — Grand Canal Cruise
A 18-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit Venice’s Grand Canal, Ferrovia: Boat Departs, Riva de Biasio, and San Marcuola — with narrated stories at every stop.
Venice — St. Mark's Basilica
A 20-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit St. Mark's Basilica, Entering the Church, Atrium Mosaics, and Nave — with narrated stories at every stop.
Venice — St. Mark's Square
A 15-stop walking tour through the heart of Italy. Visit St. Mark's Square, Cafés, St. Mark's Basilica, and Clock Tower — with narrated stories at every stop.
Japan
Kyoto: Gion & Higashiyama
Wander Kyoto's most timeless quarter — from the lantern-lit lanes of Gion where geiko still glide at dusk, through the stone-paved Higashiyama alleys to Kiyomizudera's vertiginous stage.
Kyoto: The Eastern Hills
Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan for one thousand and seventy-five years, from seven ninety-four until eighteen sixty-nine when Emperor Meiji moved the capital to Tokyo. During those eleven centuries, Kyoto accumulated more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other city in Japan — seventeen. The eastern hills district, Higashiyama, contains the densest concentration of temples, shrines, and traditional streetscapes in the city, connected by a series of stone-paved lanes that have barely changed since the Edo period. This walk follows the classic Higashiyama route from Gion north to the Silver Pavilion, along streets where geiko and maiko still pass on their way to evening appointments, where potters and lacquerware makers still practice crafts handed down for twenty generations.
Nara Deer Park & Ancient Temples
Walk among Japan's sacred deer through a UNESCO World Heritage park of ancient temples, the world's largest wooden building, and thousand-year-old cedar forests.
Osaka: Dotonbori & the Food Capital
Walk Japan's culinary capital — from the neon-lit canal of Dotonbori and the covered arcades of Shinsaibashi to the towering walls of Osaka Castle, where Toyotomi Hideyoshi once dreamed of ruling all of Japan.
Tokyo: Old Town and the Sacred East
Tokyo is the largest city on earth — thirty-seven million people in the metropolitan area — and it contains almost no surviving historic fabric from before nineteen forty-five. The firebombing of March ninth to tenth, nineteen forty-five destroyed sixteen square miles of the city in a single night, killing a hundred thousand people and leaving a million homeless. The old Tokyo is largely gone. But Asakusa — the shitamachi, the low city, the merchant quarter east of the Sumida River — survived the bombs, survived the Kanto earthquake of nineteen twenty-three, and preserves more of old Edo than anywhere else in Tokyo. This walk moves from Senso-ji temple through the rickshaw district, past the old-fashioned craft shops of Nakamise, out to the Sumida riverfront, and south through Yanaka — one of the few neighborhoods in Tokyo where the twentieth century barely left a mark.
Malta
Capital of the Knights
Walk through the smallest European capital and one of the most architecturally concentrated cities on earth — a walled city built by the Knights of St John after the Great Siege of 1565.
Valletta: The Knight's Fortress City
Walk the world's smallest capital — built in a single generation by the Knights of St John after their heroic Great Siege of fifteen sixty-five, every street lined with baroque palaces, bomb shelters, and a harbour that shaped Mediterranean history.
Morocco
Art Deco Centre Ville
Discover Casablanca's extraordinary Art Deco heritage — one of the world's great collections of Mauresque and modernist architecture built under the French Protectorate between the wars.
Fez: The Labyrinth of Fès el-Bali
Lose yourself in the most intact medieval city on earth — through the blue gate into nine thousand streets of the world's largest car-free urban area, past the famous tanneries, the ancient Karaouine mosque, and the bronze foundries that haven't changed in eight hundred years.
Marrakech: Into the Medina
Marrakech was founded in ten seventy by the Almoravid dynasty — Berber warriors from the Sahara who built an empire stretching from Senegal to Spain. They founded a city in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains and made it the capital of a kingdom that shaped the western Mediterranean world. The medina you are about to walk through is one of the largest and best-preserved medieval Islamic cities on earth, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in nineteen eighty-five. It is also completely alive — not a museum, not a theme park, but a working city of nine hundred thousand people where the medieval street plan, the craft guilds, the mosques, and the market culture continue as they have for almost a thousand years.
Netherlands
Amsterdam City Walk
A 3 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Netherlands. Visit Amsterdam City Walk, Damrak: Station to Stock Exchange, Damrak: Stock Exchange to Dam Square, and Dam Square — with narrated stories at every stop.
Amsterdam: De Pijp — The Latin Quarter
Amsterdam's gritty multicultural south — fresh stroopwafels at Europe's largest street market, craft beer in a converted nunnery, and streets named for every Dutch Golden Age painter.
Amsterdam: Golden Age Canals & the Old Centre
Walk from the train station through the Dam, along the Golden Age canal ring to the Anne Frank House, through the Jordaan's narrow lanes, past brown cafes and bicycle chaos, to the Rijksmuseum and the Vondelpark — tracing four centuries of Dutch tolerance, trade, and art.
Amsterdam: Jordaan Walk
A 14-stop walking tour through the heart of Netherlands. Visit Amsterdam's Jordaan Walk, Molsteeg, Torensluis Bridge, and Oude Leliestraat — with narrated stories at every stop.
Amsterdam: Red Light District Walk
A 13-stop walking tour through the heart of Netherlands. Visit Amsterdam’s Red Light District, Old Church (Oude Kerk), Bulldog Coffeeshop, and Prostitutes in Narrow Alleyways — with narrated stories at every stop.
Amsterdam: Southern Canal Ring & Golden Bend
The UNESCO canal belt Rick Steves skips — Mata Hari's wedding venue, a cat museum for a ginger tomcat, a 350-year-old temporary church, and Amsterdam's most romantic bridge lit by 1,200 bulbs.
New Zealand
Queenstown: Lakefront, Gondola & the Adventure Capital
Walk the edge of Lake Wakatipu as the Remarkables glow at dawn, ride the gondola to the ridge for the view that explains why people never leave, follow the Queenstown Trail along the shore, and discover the small town at the heart of the world's adventure sports industry.
Tāmaki Makaurau: Auckland's Harbour City Walk
Climb to the top of the Southern Hemisphere's tallest free-standing structure, walk the regenerated waterfront from Wynyard Quarter to Britomart, lose yourself in the laneways of the CBD, and feel the dual Māori and Pacific soul of Polynesia's largest city.
Wellington: Beehive, Cuba Street & the Edge of the World
Climb the Parliament steps, ride the cable car to the Botanic Garden, browse the secondhand bookshops and vintage stores of Cuba Street, walk the waterfront to Te Papa, and ascend Mount Victoria for the wind-whipped view that explains everything about Wellington.
Norway
Karl Johan to Vigeland
One street connects faith, democracy, literature, art, and monarchy. Then a short tram ride takes you to the park where one sculptor spent twenty years carving 212 figures about the human condition — all free, all outdoors, all extraordinary.
Oslo Civic Harbor
From the 1624 rebirth of Oslo through Nobel Peace territory, past the medieval fortress, to the fjord-bathing revival at Vippa. Ends at a food hall for lunch.
Oslo Historic Core
200 years of Norwegian identity along Karl Johans gate — from the Royal Palace to Oslo Cathedral. Royal power, cultural giants (Ibsen, Munch, Bjørnson), democracy at the Storting, and the Iron Roses memorial. 2.3 km, 11 stops, 60–75 min.
Oslo Modern Bjørvika
From a floating sauna past the Opera, the curved Deichman library, and the Barcode skyline, ending at the Sørenga seawater pool for a fjord swim.
The Grand Oslo Walk
From a palace built by a Frenchman who couldn't speak Norwegian to a thousand-year-old city buried under your feet. Walk Norway's grand boulevard, stand where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, and end at the edge of the fjord.
Peru
Cusco: Navel of the World
Cusco sits at three thousand four hundred metres above sea level in the Andes of southern Peru, and it was the capital of the largest empire in pre-Columbian American history — the Inca Empire, Tawantinsuyu, which at its peak in the early sixteenth century stretched eight thousand kilometres from present-day Colombia to Chile, ruling twelve million people. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived in fifteen thirty-two with one hundred and sixty-eight men and, through a combination of military ruthlessness, epidemic disease, and extraordinary audacity, brought down that empire within two years. The Spanish then built their colonial city directly on top of the Inca city, using Inca walls as foundations — which is why walking through Cusco's historic centre means walking with one hand tracing six-hundred-year-old stone on your left and the other touching a Spanish Baroque church wall on your right.
Lima: Historic Centre & Barranco
Walk Peru's coastal capital — from the gilded baroque churches of the Plaza Mayor through the catacombs of San Francisco, past the Pacific-facing cliffs of Miraflores, and into the bohemian art district of Barranco.
Poland
Kraków: Royal Route & Kazimierz
Walk Poland's royal capital — from the medieval Barbican through Market Square and up Wawel Hill to the castle, then into the moving Jewish quarter of Kazimierz.
Kraków: The Royal Route — Barbican to Wawel
Walk the same stones the kings of Poland walked on their coronation day. This is the Royal Route, two kilometres of medieval spine from the Barbican gate at the northern wall down to Wawel Cathedral where every Polish king from 1320 to 1795 was crowned. Along the way: the largest medieval square in Europe, a trumpet call broken off mid-note, the 15th-century altarpiece the Nazis stole and the Americans returned, the desk where the eighteen-year-old Copernicus enrolled in university, the window where a Polish Pope blessed a million people at a time, and a dragon that still breathes fire.
Market Square & Cathedral Island
Walk through one of Central Europe's most beautiful city centres — a German-then-Polish city of baroque churches, a medieval market square, and Europe's most charming island cathedral.
Portugal
Lisbon City Walk
A 3 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Portugal. Visit Lisbon City Walk, Rua Augusta and the Baixa , From Rua Augusta to Praça da Figueira , and Praça da Figueira — with narrated stories at every stop.
Lisbon: Alfama — Fado, Tiles & the Castle
The ancient Moorish quarter that survived the earthquake — fado music born in these alleys, azulejo tiles on every wall, and the best viewpoints in the city.
Lisbon: Baixa to Chiado — Earthquake City
The city rebuilt from rubble — the 1755 earthquake that killed 50,000, a fire-scarred church kept as memorial, cherry liqueur since 1840, and the roofless convent.
Lisbon: Belém & the Age of Discovery
Walk the cradle of the Age of Discovery — from the Manueline splendour of Jerónimos Monastery and the Belém Tower on the Tagus to the Monument of the Discoveries and the custard tart that changed the world.
Lisbon: Fado, Tiles & the Seven Hills
Begin at the waterfront square where explorers set sail for the ends of the earth, climb through Alfama's labyrinthine lanes to the Moorish castle, hear fado drifting from a basement bar, ride a vintage tram, and understand how a tiny nation at the edge of the world built the largest empire of its time.
Lisbon: Mouraria & the Soul of Fado
Walk Lisbon's most layered neighbourhood — through the ancient Moorish quarter where fado was born, past the multicoloured tiles of Intendente, up through the hidden viewpoints of the Colina de Santana, and into the electric food scene of the Mouraria market.
Porto: Ribeira & the Wine Cellars
Walk Porto's soul — from the azulejo-covered walls of São Bento Station down to the medieval Ribeira waterfront, across the iron bridge to the port wine cellars, and up through the Bohemian streets of Rua de Miguel Bombarda.
Porto: The Descending Walk — São Bento to the Douro
Porto is built on a hill, so any walk through it is a descent. This one starts at a train station wallpapered in twenty thousand blue-and-white tiles, climbs a tower designed by an Italian, ducks into a bookshop that swears it didn't inspire Harry Potter, passes a cathedral built like a fortress, and finishes on a bridge designed by Eiffel's business partner, ending on the far bank where the port wine is aged in lodges older than the United States. You'll learn why the locals call themselves "tripe-eaters," why the bridge has two decks, and why "port" wine can never be made in the city of Porto itself.
Sintra: Fairy-Tale Palaces & Moorish Ruins
Walk a UNESCO World Heritage landscape unlike anywhere else — from the candy-coloured towers of the National Palace through the cloud forest to the Moorish Castle ramparts, past the Victorian fantasy of Pena Palace, and out to the westernmost point of continental Europe.
Scotland
Edinburgh: Royal Mile
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Scotland. Visit Castlehill, Lawnmarket, Lady Stair’s Close, Writers’ Museum, and Bank Street Intersection — with narrated stories at every stop.
Edinburgh: The Royal Mile, Castle & Arthur's Seat
Stand on the volcanic rock where Edinburgh began, walk the Royal Mile past closes and wynds where body snatchers operated and Knox thundered, descend to the Palace of Holyroodhouse where Mary Queen of Scots watched her secretary murdered, then climb Arthur's Seat for the view that explains why this city has haunted writers for three hundred years.
Singapore
Singapore: Chinatown, Little India & the Civic District
Walk the astonishing multicultural mosaic of Singapore — from the temples and hawker centres of Chinatown through the jasmine and turmeric of Little India to the colonial grandeur of the Padang and the soaring Marina Bay skyline.
Singapore: Where Empires Met
Singapore was a sleepy Malay fishing settlement of around one thousand people when Stamford Raffles arrived on January twenty-ninth, eighteen nineteen and decided it would become the greatest trading port in Asia. He was right. In less than two hundred years, the island went from jungle to the world's fourth-largest financial centre, the world's second-busiest container port, and one of the only countries in history to be expelled from a federation and forced into independence against its will — Singaporeans did not vote for independence in nineteen sixty-five, it was declared by Malaysia's expulsion. What you are about to walk is the colonial core that Raffles designed and the surrounding ethnic neighbourhoods that grew up around it — a city that contains multitudes because it had to.
South Africa
Cape Town: At the Foot of the Mountain
Cape Town sits at the geographic and psychological hinge of the world — the point where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, where the trade routes of Europe and Asia converged for five hundred years, where the Dutch East India Company built a refreshment station that grew into a colony that grew into a country. The city exists because of Table Mountain. Every ship sailing from Amsterdam to Batavia needed a waypoint for fresh water, vegetables, and ship repairs, and Table Mountain was the most visible landmark in the southern hemisphere — a flat-topped flag you could navigate by from three hundred kilometres at sea. What grew up beneath it absorbed Dutch settlers, Malay slaves, indigenous Khoekhoe people, British colonists, Indian indentured workers, and every wave of humanity that the brutal economics of empire threw together. The result is one of the most complex and beautiful cities on earth.
Cape Town: Bo-Kaap & City Centre
Walk the layered soul of Cape Town — through the cobalt-and-coral painted streets of Bo-Kaap, across the Company's Garden, and along the waterfront where Table Mountain watches over everything.
Spain
Albaicín & Alhambra Views
Walk through Granada's ancient Moorish quarter to the viewpoints where the Alhambra palace rises above cypress trees — the most beautiful view in Spain.
Barcelona City Walk
A 3.5 km GPS-guided walk through the heart of Spain. Visit Barcelona City Walk, The Ramblas, Carrer de Santa Anna, Church of Santa Anna, and Avinguda del Portal de l’Angel — with narrated stories at every stop.
Barcelona: Barceloneta — From Fishermen's Quarter to the Sea
Deep into the 18th-century fishing village grid — birthplace of the bomba croquette, barefoot flamenco, standing-room cava bars, and the clock tower that helped define the meter.
Barcelona: Eixample — Gaudí & the Modernist Rivals
The battle of the architects — three rivals on one block, a quarry that scandalized a city, a house with two faces, and a sculptor who hid a cyclist in the stonework.
Barcelona: El Born & La Ribera — Medieval Merchants' Quarter
Through the medieval merchants' quarter east of the Gothic Quarter — Picasso's formative streets, a 2,000kg stained glass skylight, excavated 1714 siege ruins, and the cathedral the dock workers built.
Barcelona: Gaudí, Gothic Quarter & La Rambla
Begin inside Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece — the most visited building in Spain — walk the medieval lanes of the Gothic Quarter past a Roman temple and a cathedral built over a mosque, stroll La Rambla past flower stalls and mimes, reach the waterfront where Columbus pointed toward the New World, and understand a city that invented its own kind of beauty.
Barcelona: Las Ramblas — Beyond the Tourist Trap
The real stories behind Barcelona's most famous street — an anarchist's bomb at the opera, a Miró mosaic everyone walks over, Gaudí's first commission, and an 800-year-old goat market turned foodie paradise.
Barcelona's Eixample Walk
A 17-stop walking tour through the heart of Spain. Visit The Eixample Walk, La Pedrera (a.k.a. Casa Milà), Carrer de Provença, and Rambla de Catalunya — with narrated stories at every stop.
Madrid City Walk
A 15-stop walking tour through the heart of Spain. Visit Madrid City Walk, Calle de Postas, Plaza Mayor, and Bullfighting Bar: La Torre del Oro Bar — with narrated stories at every stop.
San Sebastián — Pintxos, History & the Bay
From the soaring Gothic cathedral to secret cooking clubs, from the birthplace of the pintxo to Chillida's sculptures in the crashing Atlantic surf, this walk winds through San Sebastián's Old Town and along the world-famous La Concha Bay. You'll taste the city's legendary food culture, uncover the fire that destroyed everything, and end at a century-old funicular with one of Europe's greatest views.
Sevilla City Walk
A 14-stop walking tour through the heart of Spain. Visit Sevilla City Walk, Sevilla Cathedral and Giralda Tower, Puerta del Perdón, and Avenida de la Constitución — with narrated stories at every stop.
Seville: Cathedral, Alcázar & Santa Cruz
Walk the blazing heart of Andalucía — from the world's largest Gothic cathedral to the Moorish gardens of the Alcázar, through the whitewashed Jewish quarter of Santa Cruz, and along the Guadalquivir river.
Seville: Santa Cruz & the Cathedral
Walk the most romantic city in Spain — from the world's largest Gothic cathedral and the Moorish Alcázar through the orange-blossom lanes of Santa Cruz and across the Guadalquivir to the flamenco tablaos of Triana.
Thailand
Bangkok: Kingdom on the River
Bangkok has been the capital of Thailand for less than two hundred and fifty years — founded in seventeen eighty-two by King Rama I of the Chakri dynasty on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River, after the previous capital Ayutthaya was sacked and burned by the Burmese. In that time the city grew from a royal enclave of temples and palaces on a river island to a megalopolis of eleven million people. The old city — Rattanakosin Island, the artificial island created by a canal dug in seventeen eighty-three — still contains the densest concentration of Thai royal and religious architecture anywhere in the world. This walk covers the island and its surroundings: the Grand Palace, the Temple of the Reclining Buddha, the flower market, the temple of the Giant Swing, the golden Democracy Monument, and the backpacker epicentre of Khao San Road.
Chiang Mai: Old City Temples & Night Bazaar
Walk the ancient capital of the Lanna Kingdom — from the moated old city through golden temple compounds, past the fragrant flower market, and into the lantern-lit streets of the Night Bazaar.
Turkey
Ancient Ephesus
A 18-stop walking tour through the heart of Turkey. Visit Stoa Basilica, Odeon, Prytaneion (Minerva), and View of Ephesus — with narrated stories at every stop.
Istanbul: Two Empires, One Peninsula
Istanbul is the only city in the world that has served as the capital of two of history's greatest empires — the Byzantine Empire for over a thousand years, and the Ottoman Empire for four hundred and seventy years after that. The peninsula you are about to walk sits at the meeting point of Europe and Asia, where the Bosphorus meets the Golden Horn meets the Sea of Marmara. In less than one square kilometre you will walk past buildings that are fifteen hundred years old, stand in the courtyard where Ottoman sultans ruled three continents, and cross the ground where the chariot races of Constantinople once determined the fate of emperors. Nowhere else on earth is this much history stacked this densely.
UK
British Museum
A guided tour of British Museum in UK with 26 stops. Highlights include The British Museum, Egypt: The Rosetta Stone, and King Ramesses II.
Historic London: "The City"
A 24-stop walking tour through the heart of UK. Visit The City of London, Church of St. Clement Danes, Royal Courts of Justice, and Twinings Tea — with narrated stories at every stop.
St. Paul's Cathedral
A guided tour of St. Paul's Cathedral in UK with 14 stops. Highlights include St. Paul’s Cathedral, The Nave, and The Dome.
Westminster Walk
A 12-stop walking tour through the heart of UK. Visit The Westminster Walk, London Eye, River Thames, Statue of Boadicea, and Parliament Square — with narrated stories at every stop.
USA
Chicago: The Riverwalk & Loop Treasures
Walk Chicago's most beautiful mile — along the Chicago River between the canyon walls of the Loop's most celebrated skyscrapers, from the Art Deco Tribune Tower and Marina City's corncobs to Millennium Park's Bean and Grant Park's lakefront.
New Orleans: Garden District & Magazine Street
Walk the grandest antebellum neighbourhood in America — past the colonnaded mansions of the Garden District, the above-ground tombs of Lafayette Cemetery, and along the eclectic shops and restaurants of Magazine Street.
United Kingdom
Bath: Roman Waters and Georgian Elegance
Discover the layered glory of Bath on this 3-kilometer walk through England's most beautiful small city. From the Roman thermae of Aquae Sulis to John Wood's Palladian masterpieces, you'll trace 2,000 years of history carved in honey-colored Bath stone. Meet legendary King Bladud, cursed with leprosy and cured by pigs in hot mud. Stand above the steaming spring sacred to Sulis-Minerva. Walk the Royal Crescent where Georgian aristocrats strutted their finery, and visit Jane Austen's old neighborhood, where the novelist spent five unhappy years gathering material for Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. UNESCO listed Bath in 1987 for being exactly what it is: a living museum of Roman engineering, Georgian urbanism, and West Country charm.
Edinburgh: Grassmarket, Greyfriars & the Vaults
The dark side — Diagon Alley, Tom Riddell real grave, a woman who survived hanging, body snatchers, underground city.
Edinburgh: Royal Mile — Castle to Holyrood
Down the spine of Old Edinburgh — 300 witches burned, a stool that started a war, a sealed plague street, and a murder scene.
London: Hoxton — Plague Pits, Playwrights & Punk
From a slave trader's almshouses to Shakespeare's first theatre, through plague pits, a playwright's murder scene, and the last Victorian music hall in Britain.
London: Regent's Canal — Hitchcock to Hackney
Walk the towpath from the studio where Hitchcock learned filmmaking, past narrowboat communities and ghost gasworks, to Broadway Market.
United States
Boston: The Freedom Trail & the Birth of America
Follow the red-brick line through sixteen sites where America's revolution was planned, argued, fought, and won — from the Common where British redcoats camped, past the church where Paul Revere hung his lanterns, through the market where Sam Adams roused the rabble, to the ship they threw the tea off, and the hill where they buried the men who died for it all.
Chicago: Architecture, Blues & the Loop
Stand beneath the Bean as the skyline reflects in your face, walk the Chicago Riverwalk under towers that invented the skyscraper, cross the Michigan Avenue bridge where the city burned and rebuilt itself taller, explore the Art Institute's lions, and understand why every architect in the world comes to school here.
New Orleans: Jazz, Voodoo & the French Quarter
Begin on Jackson Square as a brass band rattles the morning air, walk the oldest street in the Mississippi Valley past voodoo shops and absinthe bars, tour the house where pirates fenced their treasure, wander the above-ground cemeteries, and let Bourbon Street do its worst.
New York: Lower Manhattan, Wall Street & the Edge of the World
Start where New Amsterdam began, walk Wall Street where America's financial system was born under a buttonwood tree, stand at Ground Zero where the towers fell, cross the Brooklyn Bridge on foot, and look back at the skyline that became the image of human ambition for the entire twentieth century.
San Francisco: Chinatown, North Beach & Coit Tower
From the oldest Chinatown in North America to the birthplace of the Beat Generation, this walk traces San Francisco's most storied neighborhoods. You'll watch fortune cookies being folded by hand, climb a narrow staircase to a Taoist temple from eighteen fifty-two, stand where the American flag first flew over San Francisco, browse the bookstore that changed free speech law, drink espresso where Coppola wrote The Godfather, and descend a hidden garden staircase on Telegraph Hill while wild parrots scream overhead.
Vietnam
District 1 & French Quarter
Walk through Vietnam's most dynamic city — from the gates of the Reunification Palace to the colonial French streets, the river front, and the temples that survived everything.
Hanoi: The City of the Rising Dragon
Hanoi has been a capital city for over a thousand years. Emperor Lý Thái Tổ founded it in ten ten AD when he saw a golden dragon rising from the Red River and took it as a divine sign — naming it Thăng Long, 'Rising Dragon.' The city has been conquered, burned, colonised by China for a thousand years, then occupied by France for eighty years, then bombed by the United States for eight years. Every time it recovered. The Old Quarter — the ancient guild district of thirty-six streets, each named for the trade once practiced there — is one of the finest surviving examples of a medieval Asian merchant city. The French Quarter beside it is the most atmospheric colonial streetscape in Southeast Asia. Between them, and beside the lake, Hanoi holds its breath every morning and breathes out phở.