Audio tour · Italy
Venice
A self guided audio tour of Venice.
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A self guided audio tour of Venice.
Venice disorients you in the best way. Every bridge leads somewhere unexpected, every canal reflects a different palazzo, and the city keeps rearranging itself just as you think you have understood it. Away from the Rialto and the Piazza the sestieri grow quieter and the city feels genuinely lived in, the laundry strung across the calli, the neighbours calling across the water, the long still light of the lagoon holding everything together.
In the app, 100 stops in Venice 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 church that has seen almost 1,200 years of history."
"You are standing in front of a building that has seen everything."
"This square is the social, religious, and political center of Venice."
"You are standing on a structure that has seen it all."
"You are standing in a place of incredible history."
"You are standing in a building that has seen incredible changes over its long life."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A tight circuit around the most storied square in the world taking in the basilica, the Doge's Palace and the noble buildings that frame the piazza.
From the famous stone bridge through the old trading heart of the city past Gothic palaces, the church that predates Venice itself and a grand Renaissance theatre.
A waterside stroll along the lower Grand Canal from Baroque Salute to the Guggenheim passing a parade of magnificent palaces with some of the finest water views in Venice.
Art and architecture side by side as you walk from the great picture gallery past handsome Canal Grande palaces and the sunlit fondamenta all the way to the Gesuati.
The neighbourhood of San Polo and Santa Croce unfolds from the soaring Gothic Frari church through Tintoretto's Scuola Grande to a string of Grand Canal palaces.
The Gothic Ca d'Oro anchors a walk through northern Cannaregio past Renaissance marble churches, a medieval merchant house and the grand Ca Pesaro on the Canal Grande.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.