Avsha · Walks

Free self-guided audio walking tours

Ordered, mapped routes of narrated stories. Press play at each stop — no app, no account. Every stop is a story you can also read.

Walks by city

Mexico City, Mexico

Centro · English10 stops · 30 min · 3.6 km · Por qué la Roma se mece — la colonia flota sobre un lago que la ciudad desecó → Palacio de Bellas ArtesCentro · Español10 paradas · 31 min · 3.6 km · Por qué la Roma se mece — la colonia flota sobre un lago que la ciudad desecó → Palacio de Bellas ArtesRoma Norte · English8 stops · 24 min · 3.4 km · Parque España → Plaza Luis CabreraRoma Norte · Español8 paradas · 24 min · 3.4 km · Parque España → Plaza Luis Cabrera

Oaxaca City, Mexico

Barrio Mágico de Jalatlaco · English8 stops · 24 min · 1.9 km · Casa de Ignacio Allende → Barrio de JalatlacoBarrio Mágico de Jalatlaco · Español8 paradas · 24 min · 1.9 km · Casa de Ignacio Allende → Barrio de JalatlacoBarrio Mágico de Jalatlaco · English6 stops · 18 min · 3.1 km · Jalatlaco is Oaxaca’s most photogenic barrio, a former weavers’ village of cobblestones, muralled walls and the 17th-century church of San M → Manuel García Vigil: El Río de Papel y CanteraBarrio Mágico de Jalatlaco · Español6 paradas · 18 min · 3.1 km · Jalatlaco is Oaxaca’s most photogenic barrio, a former weavers’ village of cobblestones, muralled walls and the 17th-century church of San M → Manuel García Vigil: El Río de Papel y Cantera

London, United Kingdom

Marylebone · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.7 km · The Alexander Fleming Laboratory at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington — the untidy second-floor lab where a stray mould on a forgotten petri dish became penicillin in 1928 → What your guests ask about Place d'Armes — answered in 90 secondsFitzrovia · English5 stops · 15 min · 2.7 km · The Wallace Collection on Manchester Square, Marylebone — the townhouse museum of the Laughing Cavalier and Fragonard’s The Swing that is forbidden by its 1897 bequest to ever lend or add a single work → The story under Place d'Armes — 90 seconds, press playWhitechapel · English6 stops · 17 min · 3.6 km · Dennis Severs' House at 18 Folgate Street, Spitalfields — the candlelit still-life drama frozen as if the Huguenot family just left the room, explored in total silence → Virginia Court off Virginia Street — the surviving cobbled auction yard where Glasgow's merchants traded Virginia tobacco, sugar and rumFarringdon · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.8 km · The Golden Boy of Pye Corner in Smithfield — the gilded statue marking where the Great Fire of 1666 stopped, blaming the blaze on the sin of gluttony → The Frozen Boundary of West Hall Street

Ghent, Belgium

Portus aan de Reep · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.0 km · Dulle Griet, Ghent, Belgium → Het Klein Begijnhof, Ghent, BelgiumPortus aan de Reep · Nederlands4 stops · 12 min · 2.0 km · Dulle Griet, Ghent, Belgium → Het Klein Begijnhof, Ghent, Belgium

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Santa Teresa · English4 stops · 13 min · 2.6 km · A 20th-century coffee-baron mansion in Santa Teresa, the hilltop quarter where Rio's last surviving bonde tram (running since 1877) still ra → A Rua Visconde do Rio Branco beira o centro histórico, cujas pedras "pé-de-moleque" alagam nas marés de sizígia — o mar entra e lava as ruasSanta Teresa · Português4 paragens · 11 min · 2.6 km · A 20th-century coffee-baron mansion in Santa Teresa, the hilltop quarter where Rio's last surviving bonde tram (running since 1877) still ra → A Rua Visconde do Rio Branco beira o centro histórico, cujas pedras "pé-de-moleque" alagam nas marés de sizígia — o mar entra e lava as ruas

Cartagena, Colombia

Centro · English6 stops · 18 min · 4.2 km · Iglesia y Claustro de San Pedro Claver, Centro Histórico, Cartagena → Estatua de la India Catalina, Puente Román, CartagenaCentro · Español6 paradas · 18 min · 4.2 km · Iglesia y Claustro de San Pedro Claver, Centro Histórico, Cartagena → Estatua de la India Catalina, Puente Román, Cartagena

Prague, Czechia

Lesser Town · English8 stops · 25 min · 2.5 km · The German Embassy in the Lobkowicz Palace on Vlašská in Prague, where thousands of East Germans scaled the fence in 1989 and were freed to the West, and David Černý's golden Trabant-on-legs sculpture that now stands in the garden → The Klementinum Astronomical Tower — keeper of a weather record since 1775, where a flag was waved at noon so Prague could set its clocksJosefov · English5 stops · 16 min · 2.3 km · The Clementinum in Prague — its Baroque Astronomical Tower that once signalled noon by flag and cannon, its jaw-dropping Baroque Library Hall, and one of the world's longest unbroken daily weather records, kept here since 1775 → The Municipal House — the Art Nouveau palace where Czechoslovakia was proclaimed in 1918

Bordeaux, France

Bordeaux Centre · English6 stops · 19 min · 3.4 km · Palais Gallien, Bordeaux, France → Basilique Saint-Michel, Bordeaux, FranceBordeaux Centre · Français6 étapes · 18 min · 3.4 km · Palais Gallien, Bordeaux, France → Basilique Saint-Michel, Bordeaux, France

Lyon, France

Saint-Jean · English7 stops · 21 min · 3.7 km · Rue Roger Radisson crosses the summit of Fourvière — 'Forum vetus', the old Roman forum that gave the hill its name — between the 19th-centu → The Croix-Rousse plateau was the 'working hill' of the canuts — the silk weavers whose 1831 revolt was one of Europe's first industrial upriSaint-Jean · Français7 étapes · 20 min · 3.7 km · Rue Roger Radisson crosses the summit of Fourvière — 'Forum vetus', the old Roman forum that gave the hill its name — between the 19th-centu → The Croix-Rousse plateau was the 'working hill' of the canuts — the silk weavers whose 1831 revolt was one of Europe's first industrial upri

Athens, Greece

Plaka · Ελληνικά5 stops · 14 min · 2.1 km · Kerameikos, Athens, Turkey → Panagia Gorgoepikoos, Athens, TurkeyPlaka · English7 stops · 22 min · 3.0 km · Kerameikos, Athens, Turkey → Nafplio was Greece's first capital; on nearby Syntagma Square its first parliament sat, and its governor Kapodistrias was assassinated on a

Bologna, Italy

Quadrilatero · English6 stops · 19 min · 2.4 km · The story under Rue Suffren, opposite Alliance Francaise — 90 seconds, press play → Le Sette Chiese di Santo Stefano, Bologna, ItalyQuadrilatero · Italiano5 tappe · 14 min · 1.6 km · Teatro Anatomico dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna, Italy → Le Sette Chiese di Santo Stefano, Bologna, Italy

Florence, Italy

Oltrarno · English10 stops · 30 min · 3.2 km · Giardino Torrigiani, Florence, Italy → La finestra sempre aperta di Palazzo Budini Gattai in piazza SS. Annunziata — la sposa che aspettò per tutta la vitaOltrarno · Italiano8 tappe · 24 min · 3.1 km · Giardino Torrigiani, Florence, Italy → La finestra sempre aperta di Palazzo Budini Gattai in piazza SS. Annunziata — la sposa che aspettò per tutta la vita

Palermo, Italy

La Loggia · English6 stops · 18 min · 4.6 km · Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Italy → Teatro Massimo, Palermo, ItalyLa Loggia · Italiano5 tappe · 15 min · 4.6 km · Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Italy → Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Italy

Turin, Italy

Borgo Nuovo · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.3 km · Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy → Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio, Turin, ItalyBorgo Nuovo · Italiano4 tappe · 12 min · 2.3 km · Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy → Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio, Turin, Italy

Venice, Italy

San Polo · English9 stops · 28 min · 4.3 km · Il giardino segreto di Palazzo Soranzo Cappello — gli imperatori romani nascosti dietro il muro di Rio Marin → Il Ponte dei Pugni — le impronte di marmo delle guerre a pugni tra Castellani e NicolottiSan Polo · Italiano8 tappe · 24 min · 4.3 km · Il giardino segreto di Palazzo Soranzo Cappello — gli imperatori romani nascosti dietro il muro di Rio Marin → Il Ponte dei Pugni — le impronte di marmo delle guerre a pugni tra Castellani e Nicolotti

Kyoto, Japan

Giommachi-Minamigawa · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.3 km · Nishiki Market, Kyoto, Japan → Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto, JapanGiommachi-Minamigawa · 日本語4 stops · 1 min · 2.3 km · Nishiki Market, Kyoto, Japan → Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

Guadalajara, Mexico

Guadalajara Centro · English5 stops · 15 min · 3.6 km · Templo de Santa Mónica → the 1992 Guadalajara gas explosions in the Analco barrio — three days of fumes and no evacuationGuadalajara Centro · Español5 paradas · 15 min · 3.6 km · Templo de Santa Mónica → the 1992 Guadalajara gas explosions in the Analco barrio — three days of fumes and no evacuation

Guanajuato City, Mexico

Cerro De San Miguel · English5 stops · 15 min · 3.4 km · el Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, cuerpos momificados naturalmente por la tierra mineral y desenterrados desde 1870 por un impuesto de entierro impago → Jardín de las EmbajadorasCerro De San Miguel · Español5 paradas · 16 min · 3.4 km · el Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato, cuerpos momificados naturalmente por la tierra mineral y desenterrados desde 1870 por un impuesto de entierro impago → Jardín de las Embajadoras

Puebla, Mexico

Centro Histórico de Puebla · English8 stops · 24 min · 2.9 km · La Biblioteca Palafoxiana — la primera biblioteca pública de América → La Capilla del Rosario — la 'octava maravilla del mundo' cubierta de oroCentro Histórico de Puebla · Español8 paradas · 24 min · 2.9 km · La Biblioteca Palafoxiana — la primera biblioteca pública de América → La Capilla del Rosario — la 'octava maravilla del mundo' cubierta de oro

Querétaro, Mexico

Centro · English4 stops · 12 min · 1.8 km · Teatro de la República → Panteón de los Queretanos IlustresCentro · Español4 paradas · 12 min · 1.8 km · Teatro de la República → Panteón de los Queretanos Ilustres

Cuzco, Peru

San Blas · English6 stops · 18 min · 1.5 km · Plaza de Armas del Cusco (antigua Huacaypata), Cusco → El Qorikancha, Cusco, Peru/UruguaySan Blas · Español6 paradas · 18 min · 1.5 km · Plaza de Armas del Cusco (antigua Huacaypata), Cusco → El Qorikancha, Cusco, Peru/Uruguay

Coimbra, Portugal

Santa Clara · English7 stops · 21 min · 2.5 km · Fonte das Lágrimas, Coimbra, Portugal → Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, PortugalSanta Clara · Português7 paragens · 22 min · 2.5 km · Fonte das Lágrimas, Coimbra, Portugal → Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, Portugal

Guimarães, Portugal

Oliveira, São Paio e São Sebastião · English5 stops · 15 min · 850 m · Largo da Oliveira, Guimarães, Portugal → Castelo de Guimarães, Guimarães, PortugalOliveira, São Paio e São Sebastião · Português5 paragens · 15 min · 850 m · Largo da Oliveira, Guimarães, Portugal → Castelo de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal

Porto, Portugal

Porto City Centre · English8 stops · 24 min · 3.3 km · O Barão de Forrester — o barão do vinho do Porto que o próprio cinto de ouro afundou no Douro → Capela das Almas, Porto, PortugalPorto City Centre · Português8 paragens · 24 min · 3.3 km · O Barão de Forrester — o barão do vinho do Porto que o próprio cinto de ouro afundou no Douro → Capela das Almas, Porto, Portugal

Gyeongju-si, South Korea

Inwang-dong · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.9 km · Daereungwon, Gyeongju, South Korea → Anapji / Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, Gyeongju, South KoreaInwang-dong · 한국어4 stops · 8 min · 2.9 km · Daereungwon, Gyeongju, South Korea → Anapji / Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, Gyeongju, South Korea

Barcelona, Spain

Sant Just i Pastor · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.2 km · Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barri Gòtic, Barcelona → Basílica de la Mercè, Plaça de la Mercè, Barri Gòtic, BarcelonaSant Just i Pastor · Español4 paradas · 12 min · 2.2 km · Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barri Gòtic, Barcelona → Basílica de la Mercè, Plaça de la Mercè, Barri Gòtic, Barcelona

Córdoba, Spain

El Salvador y la Compañía · English6 stops · 19 min · 2.2 km · Sinagoga de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain → Iglesia de San Miguel, Córdoba, SpainEl Salvador y la Compañía · Español6 paradas · 18 min · 2.2 km · Sinagoga de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain → Iglesia de San Miguel, Córdoba, Spain

Granada, Spain

El Mauror · English8 stops · 24 min · 3.3 km · Granada, founded in 1524, is one of the oldest European cities on the American mainland — and in 1856 the filibuster William Walker burned i → The hotel's balconies face Parque Colón and Granada's ochre cathedral — a skyline rebuilt after William Walker's men torched the city in 185El Mauror · Español8 paradas · 24 min · 3.3 km · Granada, founded in 1524, is one of the oldest European cities on the American mainland — and in 1856 the filibuster William Walker burned i → The hotel's balconies face Parque Colón and Granada's ochre cathedral — a skyline rebuilt after William Walker's men torched the city in 185

Madrid, Spain

Malasaña · English6 stops · 18 min · 2.5 km · Plaza de Santo Domingo → Mercado de San Antón, Calle Augusto Figueroa 24, Chueca, MadridMalasaña · Español6 paradas · 19 min · 2.5 km · Plaza de Santo Domingo → Mercado de San Antón, Calle Augusto Figueroa 24, Chueca, Madrid

Seville, Spain

San Bartolomé · English7 stops · 22 min · 3.0 km · Columnas romanas de la Alameda de Hércules, Sevilla → Plaza de los Refinadores y estatua de Don Juan Tenorio, SevillaSan Bartolomé · Español7 paradas · 21 min · 3.0 km · Columnas romanas de la Alameda de Hércules, Sevilla → Plaza de los Refinadores y estatua de Don Juan Tenorio, Sevilla

Bath, United Kingdom

Kingsmead · English5 stops · 16 min · 2.5 km · What your guests ask about Upper Oldfield Park — answered in 90 seconds → The Gravel Walk beside the Royal Crescent in Bath — the path where Jane Austen reunites Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion, beside a town garden restored to its 1760 plantingWidcombe · English6 stops · 18 min · 4.8 km · The Roman Baths and sacred spring in Bath — where Romans threw lead curse tablets begging the goddess Sulis Minerva to punish thieves, including one who stole a bather’s tunic → Sydney Gardens and the Cleveland House canal tunnel in Bathwick, Bath — Jane Austen's favourite park, where a slot in the tunnel roof let clerks pass paperwork down to passing bargemen

Montevideo, Uruguay

Ciudad Vieja · English4 stops · 12 min · 1.9 km · Mercado del Puerto, Montevideo, Peru/Uruguay → Palacio Salvo, Montevideo, Peru/UruguayCiudad Vieja · Español4 paradas · 12 min · 1.9 km · Mercado del Puerto, Montevideo, Peru/Uruguay → Palacio Salvo, Montevideo, Peru/Uruguay

Vienna, Austria

Kärntner Viertel · English8 stops · 24 min · 4.3 km · The MuseumsQuartier — one of the world's largest arts complexes, built by Fischer von Erlach as the emperor's horse stables → Karlskirche — two Trajan-style columns and a lift that carries you 32 metres up into the dome frescoes

Bruges, Belgium

Brugge-Centrum · English6 stops · 18 min · 2.1 km · Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Bruges, Belgium → The hotel looks onto the Minnewater, the 'Lake of Love' — once the medieval inland harbour where trading galleys from Genoa and Venice tied

Brussels, Belgium

south extension of Brussels · English4 stops · 12 min · 1.8 km · The story under Place Loix, Saint-Gilles — 90 seconds, press play → The palais stands at Bab Marrakech, the landward gate through which camel caravans from Timbuktu entered Essaouira — in the 18th century thi

Copenhagen, Denmark

Indre By · English5 stops · 15 min · 3.4 km · Rundetaarn — why the tower has no stairs and how Tsar Peter the Great rode to the top on horseback in 1716 → The submarine Saelen at Holmen — it sank in 1990, was raised, went to war in the Gulf, and now sits in Copenhagen harbour

Munich, Germany

Old Town · English6 stops · 19 min · 4.1 km · The story under Goethestraße, Ludwigsvorstadt — 90 seconds, press play → Der verborgene Glockenbach — der Bach, der dem Viertel seinen Namen gab und unsichtbar unter den Straßen fließt

Budapest, Hungary

Lipótváros · English6 stops · 18 min · 4.6 km · The Hospital in the Rock — a secret WWII hospital and Cold War nuclear bunker hidden in the caves under Buda Castle → Párisi Udvar — why Budapest’s most beautiful arcade is covered in hundreds of carved bees

Dublin, Ireland

Royal Exchange A ED · English7 stops · 21 min · 4.9 km · The mummified 'Crusader' of St Michan's crypt → Leinster House and the White House connection

Galway, Ireland

St Nicholas · English5 stops · 15 min · 3.1 km · Quay Street is the busker-filled spine of Galway's Latin Quarter; at its foot the Spanish Arch marks where Galway's merchants once landed wi → The Quincentennial Fountain in Eyre Square — rust-red steel sails honouring the Galway hooker boats, raised for the city's 500th year in 1984

Rome, Italy

Municipio Roma I · English4 stops · 12 min · 4.0 km · The Gilded Lid of Via Urbana 6/7 → the Stadium of Domitian beneath Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy

Lisbon, Portugal

São Cristóvão e São Lourenço · English4 stops · 10 min · 2.6 km · the Río Santa Catarina, the dry riverbed that wakes into a killer flood → Alfama — o labirinto mouro que sobreviveu ao terramoto de 1755 que arrasou o resto de Lisboa

Bratislava, Slovakia

Vnútorné mesto · English4 stops · 12 min · 550 m · Michael's Gate — the last medieval gate, with the brass compass marking kilometre zero of Bratislava → The Primate's Palace hall of mirrors — where six English royal tapestries of the doomed lovers Hero and Leander lay hidden for 200 years

Stockholm, Sweden

Norrmalm · English4 stops · 12 min · 2.2 km · The story under Bryggargatan, near Norra Bantorget — 90 seconds, press play → Kungliga biblioteket, Stockholm, Scandinavia

Belfast City District, United Kingdom

Ravenhill · English5 stops · 15 min · 4.2 km · The Crown Liquor Saloon — a National Trust-owned Victorian gin palace with ten private snugs, push-bells and gunmetal match-strikers → The Lanyon Building at Queen's University Belfast — a red-brick 1849 hall modelled on Oxford's Magdalen College, alma mater of Seamus Heaney

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Petersfield · English6 stops · 18 min · 4.1 km · Cambridge's Round Church — one of only four medieval round churches left in England, its nave shaped like the rotunda over Christ's tomb in Jerusalem → Midsummer Common — where a fair has run every summer since King John's charter of 1211 and cattle still graze in the middle of the city

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

New Town · English5 stops · 16 min · 3.2 km · Dean Village — the hidden valley where eleven watermills ground Edinburgh's grain, still marked with the bakers' carved stone loaves → A 15th-century inn on the High Street of Lavenham, once one of the richest wool towns in Tudor England and now its best-preserved medieval v

York, United Kingdom

Bootham · English9 stops · 27 min · 4.1 km · Micklegate Bar — York's royal gateway where traitors' heads were spiked, including Richard Duke of York's, crowned in paper in 1460 → Walmgate ends at Walmgate Bar, the only city gate in England to keep its full barbican, portcullis and inner doors; the medieval street insi

New York, United States

Tribeca · English8 stops · 24 min · 4.5 km · The Edinburgh Vaults beneath South Bridge — hidden stone chambers where the city's poor lived in darkness, sealed for a century and now called Scotland's most haunted → What your guests ask about Canal Street (Gay Village) — answered in 90 seconds