Audio tour · United Kingdom
Aberdeen
A self guided audio tour of Aberdeen.
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A self guided audio tour of Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is built from the ground up in grey granite, and on a bright day the whole city seems to glint. It sits where the River Dee meets the North Sea, a working port town that wears its history plainly, in the long stretch of Union Street, the spires of the university quarter, and the sound of gulls carrying in off the water. Walking here has a distinctly northerly feeling, brisk and clear and quietly beautiful.
In the app, 50 stops in Aberdeen are narrated aloud, about 1h 25m of listening across 7 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 47 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.
"You are walking past a huge granite building, and you might not even notice how old it is."
"You're standing near a place with some serious layers of history."
"You are standing in front of a church that has seen nearly a thousand years of life in this area."
"You are standing before a site with a very long and varied history."
"His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen."
"St Mary's Cathedral, Aberdeen."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A tight circuit through Aberdeen's granite civic heart taking in one of the world's largest granite buildings, a hidden medieval church and the streets where the city has gathered for centuries.
A walk through the ancient university quarter from the twin-towered cathedral where bishops once held court to the crowned lantern of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen's oldest and most beloved spire.
A stroll along Aberdeen's grandest boulevard past the medieval Kirk of St Nicholas, two restored Victorian theatres and a quartet of churches that once defined the city's civic and cultural life.
A quiet out and back through the lower Dee valley pausing at a former Catholic seminary with royal portraits, the platform of a long-closed country station and a wobbling suspension footbridge above the river.
A seaside and river walk from the handsome Art Deco Beach Ballroom south through a surprising scatter of faith communities to two historic crossings over the River Dee.
A wander through Aberdeen's handsome Victorian west end taking in the regimental museum of one of Scotland's most celebrated regiments, grand parish churches and the leafy grounds where soldiers once drilled.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.