Walks by city
London, United Kingdom
Marylebone4 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 secondsFitzrovia5 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 playWhitechapel6 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 rumFarringdon4 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 StreetPrague, Czechia
Lesser Town8 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 clocksJosefov5 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 1918Mexico City, Mexico
Centro10 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 ArtesRoma Norte8 stops · 24 min · 3.4 km · Parque España → Plaza Luis CabreraOaxaca City, Mexico
Barrio Mágico de Jalatlaco8 stops · 24 min · 1.9 km · Casa de Ignacio Allende → Barrio de JalatlacoBarrio Mágico de Jalatlaco6 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 CanteraBath, United Kingdom
Kingsmead5 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 plantingWidcombe6 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 bargemenVienna, Austria
Kärntner Viertel8 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 frescoesBruges, Belgium
Brugge-Centrum6 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 tiedBrussels, Belgium
south extension of Brussels4 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 thiGhent, Belgium
Portus aan de Reep4 stops · 12 min · 2.0 km · Dulle Griet, Ghent, Belgium → Het Klein Begijnhof, Ghent, BelgiumRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Santa Teresa4 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 ruasCartagena, Colombia
Centro6 stops · 18 min · 4.2 km · Iglesia y Claustro de San Pedro Claver, Centro Histórico, Cartagena → Estatua de la India Catalina, Puente Román, CartagenaCopenhagen, Denmark
Indre By5 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 harbourBordeaux, France
Bordeaux Centre6 stops · 19 min · 3.4 km · Palais Gallien, Bordeaux, France → Basilique Saint-Michel, Bordeaux, FranceLyon, France
Saint-Jean7 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 upriMunich, Germany
Old Town6 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 fließtAthens, Greece
Plaka7 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 aBudapest, Hungary
Lipótváros6 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 beesDublin, Ireland
Royal Exchange A ED7 stops · 21 min · 4.9 km · The mummified 'Crusader' of St Michan's crypt → Leinster House and the White House connectionGalway, Ireland
St Nicholas5 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 1984Bologna, Italy
Quadrilatero6 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, ItalyFlorence, Italy
Oltrarno10 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 vitaPalermo, Italy
La Loggia6 stops · 18 min · 4.6 km · Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Italy → Teatro Massimo, Palermo, ItalyRome, Italy
Municipio Roma I4 stops · 12 min · 4.0 km · The Gilded Lid of Via Urbana 6/7 → the Stadium of Domitian beneath Piazza Navona, Rome, ItalyTurin, Italy
Borgo Nuovo4 stops · 12 min · 2.3 km · Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy → Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio, Turin, ItalyVenice, Italy
San Polo9 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 NicolottiKyoto, Japan
Giommachi-Minamigawa4 stops · 12 min · 2.3 km · Nishiki Market, Kyoto, Japan → Kodai-ji Temple, Kyoto, JapanGuadalajara, Mexico
Guadalajara Centro5 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 evacuationGuanajuato City, Mexico
Cerro De San Miguel5 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 EmbajadorasPuebla, Mexico
Centro Histórico de Puebla8 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 oroQuerétaro, Mexico
Centro4 stops · 12 min · 1.8 km · Teatro de la República → Panteón de los Queretanos IlustresCuzco, Peru
San Blas6 stops · 18 min · 1.5 km · Plaza de Armas del Cusco (antigua Huacaypata), Cusco → El Qorikancha, Cusco, Peru/UruguayCoimbra, Portugal
Santa Clara7 stops · 21 min · 2.5 km · Fonte das Lágrimas, Coimbra, Portugal → Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, PortugalGuimarães, Portugal
Oliveira, São Paio e São Sebastião5 stops · 15 min · 850 m · Largo da Oliveira, Guimarães, Portugal → Castelo de Guimarães, Guimarães, PortugalLisbon, Portugal
São Cristóvão e São Lourenço4 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 LisboaPorto, Portugal
Porto City Centre8 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, PortugalBratislava, Slovakia
Vnútorné mesto4 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 yearsGyeongju-si, South Korea
Inwang-dong4 stops · 12 min · 2.9 km · Daereungwon, Gyeongju, South Korea → Anapji / Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond, Gyeongju, South KoreaBarcelona, Spain
Sant Just i Pastor4 stops · 12 min · 2.2 km · Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Barri Gòtic, Barcelona → Basílica de la Mercè, Plaça de la Mercè, Barri Gòtic, BarcelonaCórdoba, Spain
El Salvador y la Compañía6 stops · 19 min · 2.2 km · Sinagoga de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain → Iglesia de San Miguel, Córdoba, SpainGranada, Spain
El Mauror8 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 185Madrid, Spain
Malasaña6 stops · 18 min · 2.5 km · Plaza de Santo Domingo → Mercado de San Antón, Calle Augusto Figueroa 24, Chueca, MadridSeville, Spain
San Bartolomé7 stops · 22 min · 3.0 km · Columnas romanas de la Alameda de Hércules, Sevilla → Plaza de los Refinadores y estatua de Don Juan Tenorio, SevillaStockholm, Sweden
Norrmalm4 stops · 12 min · 2.2 km · The story under Bryggargatan, near Norra Bantorget — 90 seconds, press play → Kungliga biblioteket, Stockholm, ScandinaviaBelfast City District, United Kingdom
Ravenhill5 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 HeaneyCambridge, United Kingdom
Petersfield6 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 cityEdinburgh, United Kingdom
New Town5 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 vYork, United Kingdom
Bootham9 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 insiNew York, United States
Tribeca8 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 secondsMontevideo, Uruguay
Ciudad Vieja4 stops · 12 min · 1.9 km · Mercado del Puerto, Montevideo, Peru/Uruguay → Palacio Salvo, Montevideo, Peru/Uruguay