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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
- 126 walks
- cities
- 86 cities
Download free, then pick history as your theme for any place on Earth.
History Walking Tours by city
Showing 48 of 126. The rest are on their city pages.
Cities with history walks
Delft5Amsterdam5Haarlem4Milan3Antwerp3Naarden3Harderwijk3Eindhoven3Alphen aan den Rijn3Rotterdam3Liège3Paris3New York3Bellagio3Leiden2Leeuwarden2Lübeck2Edinburgh2Castricum2Colico2Dervio2Tarragona1Utrecht1Maastricht1Trier1Brielle1Nijmegen1Brugge1Ghent1Zoetermeer1's-Hertogenbosch1Braunschweig1Albert1Chicago1St. Louis1Lenno1Alkmaar1Racławice1Arnhem1Gravedona ed Uniti1Duisburg1Roermond1London1Kraków1Vancouver1Oostzaan1Domaso1Vreeland1Boskoop1Nootdorp1Sandton1Simi Valley1Roelofarendsveen1Julianadorp1Bagenkop1Santa Fe1Metropolitan City of Florence1Roma1Oss1Bishkek1Zwolle1Berlin1Barcelona1Madrid1Seattle1Los Angeles1Ciutadella1San Francisco1Santa Monica1Den Helder1Lyon1Il-Belt Valletta1Brussels1Palma1Aarhus1Linschoten1Porto1Dordrecht1Pommern1Dublin1Tremezzo1Como1Mumbai1Wijchen1Lingen1Beekbergen1
History Walking Tours — FAQ
- How many history walking tours are there?
- 126 published routes across 86 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.