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History Walking Tours
Self-guided history walking tours you can download and walk at your own pace — narrated stop by stop, from Roman street plans to what happened on the corner you're standing on.
A history walk is the one PodWalk gets asked for most, and it's the one where local specificity matters more than fame. The narration is written from what the record actually says about each stop — Wikipedia, Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, read for that street rather than for the city as a whole — so a market square gets its own story instead of a paragraph that would fit any old town in Europe.
- walks
- 189 walks
- cities
- 118 cities
Download free, then pick history as your theme for any place on Earth.
History Walking Tours by city
Showing 48 of 189. The rest are on their city pages.
Cities with history walks
Amsterdam10Delft7Haarlem6Paris5Harderwijk4Antwerp4Leiden4Eindhoven4Rotterdam4Kraków4Milan3Naarden3Liège3Alkmaar3Alphen aan den Rijn3New York3Bellagio3Castricum3Porto3Maastricht2Amersfoort2Leeuwarden2Arnhem2Dordrecht2Lübeck2London2Edinburgh2The Hague2Colico2Dervio2Trier1Ghent1Utrecht1Tarragona1Córdoba1Brielle1Nijmegen1Strasbourg1Brugge1Palma de Mallorca1Oss1Coimbra1Zoetermeer1's-Hertogenbosch1Roermond1Braunschweig1Albert1Chicago1St. Louis1Lenno1Cologne1Alicante1Racławice1Gravedona ed Uniti1Campanet1Lingen (Ems)1Duisburg1Innsbruck1Berlin1Vienna1Lyon1Brussels1Vancouver1Oostzaan1Domaso1Copenhagen1Vreeland1Boskoop1Nootdorp1Hoog-Keppel1North Judson1Sandton1Simi Valley1Roelofarendsveen1Julianadorp1Bagenkop1Santa Fe1Metropolitan City of Florence1Roma1Buren1Assen1Middelburg1Bishkek1Zwolle1Barcelona1Madrid1Seattle1Los Angeles1Wiesbaden1Cuijk1Tilburg1Ciutadella1San Francisco1Santa Monica1Darmstadt1Den Helder1Il-Belt Valletta1Hardenberg1Heidelberg1Palma1Aarhus1Linschoten1Barendrecht1Breda1Woerden1Pommern1Dublin1Tremezzo1Como1Mumbai1Wijchen1Lingen1Sarajevo1Purmerend1Province of Siena1Sankt Peter-Ording1Beekbergen1Province of Lucca1
History Walking Tours — FAQ
- How many history walking tours are there?
- 189 published routes across 118 cities. You can also have PodWalk write a history walk for any other place on Earth.
- Can I ask for a history walk in a specific place?
- Yes — that's the normal way to use PodWalk. Type any place, pick history as the theme, and the app plans a route and writes the narration around it, usually in about a minute.
- Are these guided tours with a real guide?
- No. Every walk is self-guided: no booking, no group, no start time. The narration plays automatically as you reach each stop.
- What does a history walk cost?
- Your first walk is free. After that PodWalk uses one-time passes from $2.99 — there's no subscription and nothing auto-renews.