Audio tour · France
Paris
A self guided audio tour of Paris.
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The app is on the App Store
A self guided audio tour of Paris.
Paris rewards the pedestrian above all else. The city unfolds as a sequence of sensations, a morning market, a courtyard glimpsed through iron gates, the way the light lands on the Seine at different hours, the smell of bread from a boulangerie that has been there longer than anyone can remember. No checklist does justice to it. You simply walk, and the city keeps giving.
In the app, 100 stops in Paris 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.
"When you stand here, you might feel a sense of scale, and that is because this structure is."
"It was originally commissioned in 1806, right after Napoleon won the big victory at Austerlitz."
"Take a moment to look up at the flying buttresses."
"The world's largest art museum, in a former royal palace."
"You're standing above six million people."
"You might notice how the architecture blends classical Greek principles with later Roman ones."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A sweep from the Eiffel Tower across the Seine to the grand palaces and museums of the Trocadéro hill
From the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs Élysées to the gilded theatres and fashion houses of Avenue Montaigne
A short but dense walk from Notre Dame through the medieval lanes of the Latin Quarter and across to the Marais riverbank
A tight loop through the Louvre complex from the medieval castle at its heart to the sun filled gardens of the Tuileries
From the underground city of bones through the old student streets of the Left Bank up to the Panthéon and the grand Luxembourg gardens
A winding climb through Montmartre from the Wall of Love and Dalida's square to the red windmill of Pigalle
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.