Edinburgh
A self-guided audio walking tour of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This self-guided audio walking tour of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, United Kingdom covers 12 narrated stops over roughly 60 minutes and about 3.3 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 Regent Bridge to General Register House. Expect a focus on history.
Download free, then play this walk in Edinburgh — narration starts automatically at each stop, online or off.
The route, stop by stop
Regent Bridge
The road beneath your feet is entering the city — but the city has arranged things so you barely notice what it's…
Political Martyrs' Monument
Five men were transported to the other side of the world for asking a question Edinburgh wasn't ready to answer: who should govern Scotland, and by whose…
St Andrew's House
Nineteen thirty-nine, and Scotland finally got a building of its own — not a parliament, not a court, but an office…
Trinity College Kirk
A queen founds a church for her dead husband, then ends up buried in it herself. That's Trinity College Kirk — an institution born from grief, and shaped ever after by…
The Scotsman Hotel
For nearly a century, this building was where Edinburgh's public life got argued over in print — and then, in 2001, it became somewhere people…
City Art Centre
Culture, in Edinburgh, eventually found a building to live in. And that building belongs to the…
Waverley Bridge
The bridge you're standing on isn't just crossing a street — it's crossing a station. Beneath your feet, trains are arriving and departing, the whole mechanism of modern Edinburgh humming below the…
57 Gallery
In 1957, a group of artists in Edinburgh decided not to wait for the city's approval — they opened their own…
Balmoral Hotel
In 1902, Edinburgh decided what kind of city it wanted to be — and it announced that decision in stone and steel at the foot of the North…
Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington
In 1902, Edinburgh announced what it had become—not through a parliament or a court, but through a hotel that told arriving passengers exactly what kind of city they'd…
Dundas House
Sir Lawrence Dundas didn't build this house to be admired. He built it to be understood — by the right people, in the right…
General Register House
Everything this walk has passed through — the bridges, the monuments, the civic machinery — ends here, at the building that holds the…
These are the opening lines of each stop. The full narration — and the audio — plays in the app.
Edinburgh walking tour — good to know
- How long is the Edinburgh walking tour?
- About 60 minutes on foot, covering 12 stops over 3.3 km. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you like.
- What does the Edinburgh audio tour cover?
- 12 narrated stops, beginning at Regent Bridge and ending at General Register House. 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 United Kingdom. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
- Is the Edinburgh 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.
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Walk Edinburgh with PodWalk
Free to download. Your first walk is free, and you can download this one for fully offline use.