Audio tour · Italy
Florence
A self guided audio tour of Florence.
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The app is on the App Store
A self guided audio tour of Florence.
Florence rewards the slow walker above all else. The city gathers along the Arno in a compact grid of stone streets and ochre facades, where a turn into almost any courtyard or church opens onto something painted or carved with quiet ambition. The art is everywhere, but so is the ordinary life happening around it, and that mix is what makes the place feel alive.
In the app, 100 stops in Florence 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 100 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're standing in front of a building that has been under construction, or at least under."
"When you look at this building, remember that it wasn't originally conceived as a museum."
"Take a moment to look at this bridge."
"You're walking past a massive, rusticated stone building."
"When you look at this massive structure, you might think it has always been this size."
"You are standing in a place that feels less like a church and more like a giant memorial."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A tight loop around the cathedral complex uncovers the baptistery mosaics, a buried Roman church beneath your feet, and the gilded altarpiece of the Magi Chapel
From the Uffizi's masterpiece galleries to the outdoor sculpture hall of the Loggia dei Lanzi, this compact walk sits at the very heart of Florentine civic life
Cross the river on the jewellers' bridge, slip through medieval churches, and arrive at the straw market's famous bronze boar before reaching the grand Piazza della Signoria
Palazzo Pitti anchors this south-bank stroll through tranquil piazzas, a wax-figure natural history museum, and the lush terraces of the Boboli Gardens
The great Franciscan basilica where Michelangelo and Galileo are buried leads you through chapels, a sunlit piazza, and the Bargello's world-class sculpture collection
Ghirlandaio's luminous frescoes inside Santa Maria Novella lead you through a perfumery older than most nations and on to the Medici family chapels where Michelangelo carved marble in low torchlight
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.