Audio tour · Germany

Hamburg

A self-guided audio walking tour of Hamburg.

Hamburg is a port city that faces inward as much as outward, its canals and lakes giving every neighbourhood a different character. The warehouse district and the waterfront carry the weight of centuries of trade, while a few streets away the city turns leafy and residential, unhurried and familiar. It is a place that opens up gradually, best understood by walking its water's edges at your own pace. In the app, 74 stops in Hamburg are narrated aloud, about 2h 6m 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.

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What you'll hear in Hamburg

The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.

St. Nicholas Church. You are standing in a spot where you can feel the weight of centuries.
St. Michael's Church. The 132-metre spire dominating the skyline has always served as a guide for ships sailing up.
Bullenhuser Damm. You are standing past a location with a difficult history.
Hamburger Kunsthalle. This place is one of the biggest art museums in Germany, and it tells a story about how art.
Tierpark Hagenbeck. The whole story really starts back in 1863 when Carl Hagenbeck Sr.
Al-Quds Mosque. When you look at this building, you might not realize the complexity of the history it holds.

All 74 stops in Hamburg

Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route.

Museum (17)

Bullenhuser Damm
Dialogue in the Dark
Hamburg Dungeon
Composers Quarter Hamburg
Krameramtsstuben
Brahms Museum (Hamburg)
Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum
Jenisch House
Altonaer Museum
Hamburg Museum of Work
Gustav Mahler Museum
Telemann Museum
Afghan Museum
Bishop's Tower
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum
Johann Adolph Hasse Museum
Museum Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg

Landmark (14)

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Tierpark Hagenbeck
Außenalster
Bismarck Monument (Hamburg)
St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg
St. Mary's Cathedral, Hamburg
Inselpark Arena
Deichtorhallen
Domkirche St. Marien
Speicherstadtrathaus
Ernst Barlach House
Warburg Haus, Hamburg
Afrikahaus (Hamburg)
Katharinenstraße 9

Religious (13)

St. Nicholas Church, Hamburg
St. Michael's Church, Hamburg
Al-Quds Mosque
Islamic Centre Hamburg
Church of Saint Peter, Hamburg
St. James' Church, Hamburg
Bornplatz Synagogue
St. Pauli Church (Hamburg)
Hamburg Central Mosque
Fazl-e-Omar Mosque
St. Matthew's Church, Hamburg
St. Mary's Church, Fuhlsbüttel, Hamburg
St. Johannis-Harvestehude

Theatre (12)

Hamburg State Opera
Rote Flora
Thalia Theater (Hamburg)
Deutsches Schauspielhaus
Operettenhaus
Oper am Gänsemarkt
Neue Flora
Ohnsorg-Theater
Hansa-Theater (Hamburg)
Altonaer Theater
Theater für Kinder
Harburger Theater

Square (9)

Heiligengeistfeld
Beatles-Platz
Rathausmarkt
Gänsemarkt
Dammtor
Hans-Albers-Platz
Stephansplatz, Hamburg
Sievekingplatz
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Platz

Park (5)

Ohlsdorf Cemetery
Horner Rennbahn
Luna Park Hamburg-Altona
Jenisch park
Born Park

Monument (2)

Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations
Freight Wagon Memorial

Skyscraper (1)

Dancing Towers

Historic (1)

Hamburg Berliner Bahnhof

Walking routes in Hamburg

Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.

Altstadt Spires and the Old Harbour Quarter. A tight loop through Hamburg's medieval core linking five centuries of spire-topped churches, the grand Rathausmarkt square and the waterfront Dungeon. (8 stops)
Michel and the Composers Quarter. A short stroll in the shadow of Hamburg's beloved Michel church through a cluster of intimate museums celebrating the composers who called this neighbourhood home. (8 stops)
From Hammerbrook to the Deichtorhallen. A cross-quarter walk tracing a path from a haunting wartime memorial through theatres, mosques and a pioneering radiology monument to the iron-and-glass halls of Deichtor. (8 stops)
Kunsthalle to the Opera Quarter. A cultured loop from the grand Kunsthalle past Hamburg's oldest churches and Jacobi's historic organ to the gilded theatres of the Gänsemarkt district. (8 stops)
Hagenbeck to the Schanzenviertel. A generous west-to-east sweep starting at Hagenbeck's famous zoo and winding through Luna Park, two great theatres and the storied streets of Eimsbüttel. (8 stops)
Ohlsdorf Garden Cemetery and Barmbek. A peaceful northern circuit through Europe's largest park cemetery, two historic parish churches and the Barmbek freight-wagon memorial to the city's industrial heritage. (5 stops)