Audio tour · Romania
Bucharest
A self guided audio tour of Bucharest.
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A self guided audio tour of Bucharest.
Bucharest is a city of surprising depth. Grand boulevards lined with crumbling Belle Epoque facades lead into quiet courtyards where old Orthodox churches sit almost hidden from the street. The pace is easy and the scale human, and once you are past the centre you find neighbourhoods with their own particular character, each one telling a different part of a long and complicated story.
In the app, 100 stops in Bucharest are narrated aloud, about 2h 50m of listening across 8 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 60 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.
"Take a moment to look at the sheer scale of this place."
"You are standing before a piece of Bucharest's history."
"You are standing here looking at a building with layers of history you can barely imagine."
"National Museum of Art of Romania."
"When you first walk through these doors, you might not know that this spot has been a stage."
"You might notice how grand this avenue feels, especially when you walk past the old palaces."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
Start at the world's second largest building and weave down through monasteries and a neoclassical theatre to the old city fringe.
A sweeping west-side walk from the royal Cotroceni Palace past military heritage and an elegant stork-nest church to the dramatic Basarab viaduct and tower.
The golden mile of Bucharest culture from the national art palace and its equestrian king through the square where history turned in 1989 to the grand boulevard beyond.
A countryside excursion northwest of the city taking in a Wallachian water palace, a haunting roofless monastery and a quiet park.
Circle the lakeside open-air village museum then drift south past folk art collections, a French church and the monument to Romania's early pilots.
From the seat of government at Victoria Palace through geological and peasant museums to the ornate Cantacuzino Palace and its neighbours on Calea Victoriei north.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.
Every place on TourTour has its own routes and its own stories.