Paris
A self-guided audio walking tour of Paris, France
This self-guided audio walking tour of Paris in Paris, France covers 11 narrated stops over roughly 60 minutes and about 4.0 km on foot. Press play in the PodWalk app and each stop is narrated automatically as you arrive — walk at your own pace, online or fully offline. The route runs from Café de la Gare to Saint-Merri. Expect a focus on history and hidden gems.
Download free, then play this walk in Paris — narration starts automatically at each stop, online or off.
The route, stop by stop
Café de la Gare
A group of comedians in 1968 decided the best place to make theater was inside a derelict factory — not a stage, not a hall, just a space that no one else…
Place Harvey-Milk
A small square, an intersection, a name on a street sign — and suddenly the city is making a claim about…
Mémorial de la Shoah
Some places refuse to be absorbed into the city's rhythm. This is one of…
Saint-Gervais elm
Before the church, before the stone, there was a tree. This elm has stood here since 1935 — not ancient by forest standards, but old enough to have watched the city do what it does: memorialize, forget, and carry…
Notre Dame Cathedral
Victor Hugo didn't write about Notre-Dame to celebrate it. He wrote to save…
Sainte-Chapelle
Notre-Dame reaches upward through shadow and mass. Sainte-Chapelle does the opposite — it dissolves the wall…
Fontaine du Palmier
1808. Napoleon's empire is at its height, and Paris is being dressed for the occasion — not with barricades or cathedrals, but with…
Tour Saint-Jacques
In 1797, the Revolutionary government sold off a medieval church stone by stone — treating a six-hundred-year-old building as raw material. Only the tower was left…
Rue des Lombards
The name on this street is a ledger entry. Rue des Lombards — the Lombards — medieval bankers from northern Italy who set up their money-changing tables right here, in the shadow of the…
Centre Georges Pompidou
In 1977, Paris unveiled a building that looked, to many, like a refinery had landed in the medieval quarter — pipes, ducts, and escalators all pushed to the outside, the skeleton worn like a…
Saint-Merri
A seventh-century abbot from Autun walked into Paris on pilgrimage and never left. He died here in the year 700, and the city, eventually, decided that meant…
These are the opening lines of each stop. The full narration — and the audio — plays in the app.
Paris walking tour — good to know
- How long is the Paris walking tour?
- About 60 minutes on foot, covering 11 stops over 4.0 km. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you like.
- What does the Paris audio tour cover?
- 11 narrated stops, beginning at Café de la Gare and ending at Saint-Merri. Each one plays automatically as you reach it.
- Do I need an internet connection or mobile data?
- No. Download the walk once in the PodWalk app and the narration plays fully offline — handy while roaming in France. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
- Is the Paris audio tour free?
- Your first walk on PodWalk is free. After that, walks come through one-time passes from $2.99 — there's no subscription and nothing auto-renews.
- Can I do the tour at my own pace?
- Yes. There's no guide and no schedule — start when you want, linger as long as you like, and the next stop plays automatically when you get there.
Walk Paris with PodWalk
Free to download. Your first walk is free, and you can download this one for fully offline use.