Tour types Archives - The3DTravel Self-guided audio walking tours Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:35:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://the3dtravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/the3dtravel-icon-512-100x100.png Tour types Archives - The3DTravel 32 32 Mozart’s Vienna: the Ten Years After Salzburg https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-mozart/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:31:34 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-mozart/ One man's ten years in his own letters, from the archbishop's table to the Burggarten, in nine stops

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The popular version of Mozart’s story ends with a genius dying poor, poisoned by a rival and thrown into a pauper’s grave. This walk tests that version against the best witness there is, his own letters. It starts where he broke with the Archbishop of Salzburg in 1781 and follows him through the old town: the cathedral where he married a day before his father’s consent arrived, the only one of his apartments that survives, the room where he started out as a free musician, the house where the emperor gave him a post, the square where he wrote his begging letters, the site of the theater where three of his operas opened, and the street where he died. It ends at his monument, with the answer to the question he set himself in 1781. No tickets needed; an optional museum visit at Domgasse 5. The optional deep dives add about 7 minutes.

The stops

  1. The House of the Teutonic Order: Three Words in May
  2. St. Stephen’s: One Day Too Early
  3. Domgasse 5: The Father Comes to Visit
  4. Milchgasse 1: Haven’t I Enough to Do?
  5. Tuchlauben 27: The Emperor’s Musician
  6. Judenplatz: The Letters to Puchberg
  7. Michaelerplatz: Three First Nights
  8. Rauhensteingasse 8: The Last Year
  9. The Burggarten: Honor, Fame and Money

Finding the start

Start on the Singerstraße opposite No. 7, the stone portal of the House of the Teutonic Order, about 200 meters from the Stephansplatz underground station (U1, U3): walk past the south side of the cathedral into the Singerstraße; No. 7 is on the left, beside the church of the Teutonic Order.

Terrain and access

Level and step-free, about three and a half kilometers through the old town, mostly pedestrian zones on paving, with cobbles in the Domgasse and on the Judenplatz and gravel and asphalt paths in the Burggarten. Streets with traffic at the start (Singerstraße), in the Schulerstraße, on the Michaelerplatz (horse carriages), at the Neuer Markt and the Albertinaplatz. The Burggarten is locked at night (seasonal hours); the walk can then end on the Albertinaplatz. No admissions needed; the Mozarthaus museum at Domgasse 5 is optional and ticketed.

Tickets

No admissions needed; the Mozarthaus museum at Domgasse 5 is optional and ticketed.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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For more than six hundred years one family ruled a growing empire from a handful of streets in the middle of Vienna. This walk follows the Habsburgs through them: a cathedral begun by a duke who forged his family’s rank, a roof that carries both the emperor’s eagle and the Republic’s, a plague column on which the emperor kneels, a street aimed at the palace gate, a palace front that took a century and a half to finish, a gate that runs out of room for its titles, a palace the empire never completed, the church where the family married and kept its hearts, a surviving piece of the old city wall, and, at the end, the crypt where the last public Habsburg burial was turned away under its titles and let in only as a mortal human being. No tickets needed; optional layers for the crypts, the Treasury and the stories behind the stones.

The stops

  1. St. Stephen’s: A Forger Builds a Cathedral
  2. The Roof: Two Eagles and a Fire
  3. The Plague Column: The Emperor on His Knees
  4. The Kohlmarkt: A Street Aimed at a Palace
  5. Michaelerplatz: The Front Door and the House Without Eyebrows
  6. In der Burg: The Gate of Titles
  7. Heldenplatz: The Palace That Was Never Finished
  8. Josefsplatz: Weddings and Hearts
  9. Albertinaplatz: The Wall, the Palace and the Cellar
  10. The Capuchin Crypt: Knocking at the Door

Finding the start

Start on Stephansplatz in front of the west front of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the side with the great round-arched door, standing a little to one side out of the stream of people. The Stephansplatz subway station (lines U1 and U3) opens onto the square.

Terrain and access

Level all the way, about two kilometers on paving and some cobbles, with no steps on the route. Crowded pedestrian zones around the cathedral, on the Graben and the Kohlmarkt, especially on weekend afternoons, so mornings are best. Cars and horse cabs drive through the palace courtyard and around Michaelerplatz; traffic at Albertinaplatz and Neuer Markt, with marked crossings. No admissions needed. The Imperial Crypt (ticket, lift down), the ducal crypt under the cathedral (guided tours only, not step-free), the heart crypt (Sundays after High Mass or by appointment) and the Treasury are optional.

Tickets

No admissions needed; the cathedral is free to enter, while the Imperial Crypt, the Treasury and the court library need tickets.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Four Powers, One City: Vienna 1945 to 1955 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-four-powers/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:31:07 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-four-powers/ The real occupied city behind the 1949 film The Third Man, from the Soviet memorial to the Hoher Markt

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A famous black-and-white film made Vienna’s ruins look like a city of shadows and crooks. This walk follows the film to its doorways, squares and sewer hatch, and then tells what it left out: ten years in which four armies ran one city. A Soviet soldier on a column that Austria is bound by treaty to keep. Four generals at one table, deadlocked over a paragraph. A black market a short walk from the film’s sewer entrance, and the real trade in penicillin, kept apart from the film’s fiction. An opera house that burned and waited ten years. Four soldiers of four armies in one jeep. People taken by the occupiers and brought home years later, one of them on a stretcher. And a foreign minister whose famous words were said indoors, not where everyone remembers. No film clips, music or quotations; no tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Schwarzenbergplatz: The Soldier and the Generals
  2. Karlsplatz: The Hatch and the Market
  3. Behind the Opera: Requisitioned
  4. Josefsplatz: A Dead Man’s Front Door
  5. Schreyvogelgasse 8: The Doorway
  6. Am Hof: The Kiosk That Never Was
  7. Maria am Gestade: The Newest Old Steps
  8. Hoher Markt: Free, Indoors

Finding the start

Start on the west sidewalk of Schwarzenbergplatz, level with the middle of the Haus der Industrie (Schwarzenbergplatz 4) across the square, with the Soviet war memorial visible down the square to the south. Trams D and 71 stop at Schwarzenbergplatz nearby; the U-Bahn station Karlsplatz (U1, U2, U4) is about 600 meters west.

Terrain and access

About 3.7 kilometers, almost level, on paved sidewalks and, from Josefsplatz on, cobbled squares and lanes. The main route is step-free: the stairs at the Mölker Steig and at Maria am Gestade are optional and never needed. Busy crossings with lights and acoustic signals at Schwarzenbergplatz, Karlsplatz, Friedrichstrasse and the Ring; quiet lanes after the opera. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Vienna After Dark: Plague, Executions and the Basilisk https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-after-dark/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:30:53 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/vienna-after-dark/ What the old city feared in the dark, and what was really there, on lit streets from Stephansplatz to the Sonnenfelsgasse

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Vienna’s dark side, told straight and labeled where it is legend. A square that was a graveyard, with gates locked at night. A court whose clock struck for no happy man, and the only woman Vienna ever sentenced to death as a witch. A drunken bagpiper in a plague pit, and the real street singer the death register could only call Augustin N. A fortress built against the city’s own people. A gate where the plague dead piled up. A monster in a well that turned out to be a stone. A doctor whose epitaph calls him beggar and nothing. And the professor who, in the same years, helped end torture and put new lamps on these streets. History, not horror: real people, named from the records, told with care. Made for the evening on lit streets, and just as good by day. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Stephansplatz: The Graveyard Under the Square
  2. The Hoher Markt: A Clock for No Happy Man
  3. The Fleischmarkt: Augustin N.
  4. The Dominikanerbastei: The Fortress That Faced the City
  5. The Stubentor: Shut at Night
  6. The Schönlaterngasse: The Basilisk in the Well
  7. The Old University: Who Stayed
  8. The Sonnenfelsgasse: The Man Who Lit the Lamps

Finding the start

Start on Stephansplatz at the far east end of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, on the open paving about ten meters from the rounded end of the choir. From the Stephansplatz subway station (U1, U3) walk around the right-hand (south) side of the cathedral, about 170 meters.

Terrain and access

About 2.2 kilometers on lit streets, almost level and step-free (the steps at the end of the Dominikanerbastei are avoided). Setts and cobbles in several lanes and on the university square, slippery when wet. No traffic lights: two zebras and otherwise crossings of quiet or shared streets. Made for the evening and usable by day; courtyards that close at night are avoided. Bars in the Schönlaterngasse and at the Stubentor are busy late. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> The Heart of Rome: From Caesar’s Murder to the Spanish Steps https://the3dtravel.com/tours/rome-heart-of-rome/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:30:40 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/rome-heart-of-rome/ A murdered dictator, a statue that mocked popes, a stadium turned square, a temple that kept another man's name, a scientist made to kneel, a two-thousand-year-old aqueduct and a poet who asked for no name, from Largo Argentina to the Spanish Steps

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A self-guided audio walk through the old center of Rome, from the ruins where Julius Caesar was stabbed to the foot of the Spanish Steps. It asks one question along the way: what did Rome choose to keep in sight, what did it bury, and whose name ended up on the stone? You will look down on the remains of the hall the Senate walled up after the murder, meet the battered statue that mocked popes for three centuries, stand in a square that is still the shape of an emperor’s stadium and hear why the famous Bernini and Borromini story cannot be true, read the name on the Pantheon and learn why it belongs to a man who never saw the building, stand outside the convent where Galileo knelt, find a temple whose columns have housed customs officers, stockbrokers and the Chamber of Commerce, pass the palace where Italy is governed, watch water that has run into Rome since 19 BC fill the Trevi Fountain, and end under the window where John Keats died. Everything is told from public streets and squares; going into the Pantheon or any church is optional and separate, and no tickets are sold or bundled. Ancient accounts are credited to their authors and every legend is labeled.

The stops

  1. Largo di Torre Argentina: The Room Rome Walled Up
  2. Pasquino: The Statue That Talked Back
  3. Piazza Navona: A Stadium Turned Square
  4. The Pantheon: Another Man’s Name
  5. Piazza della Minerva: The Elephant and the Trial
  6. Piazza di Pietra: A Temple Full of Office Workers
  7. Piazza Colonna: From Popes to Prime Ministers
  8. The Trevi Fountain: Agrippa’s Water
  9. Piazza di Spagna: A Name Writ in Water

Finding the start

Start at Largo di Torre Argentina (tram 8 and many buses stop here). Stand at the railing on the west side of the square, on Via di San Nicola de’ Cesarini, looking east down into the sunken ruins.

Terrain and access

About 2.9 kilometers, flat and step-free on sampietrini cobbles, lanes and squares; some narrow lanes are shared with slow cars. Crossings with lights at Largo di Torre Argentina and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, zebra crossings over Corso del Rinascimento and Via del Corso, and the busy Via del Tritone. Very crowded at Piazza Navona, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza di Spagna; keep bags closed. No admissions; every building is seen from outside, and the Spanish Steps are seen from the square (climbing them is optional). The walk ends about 150 meters from the Spagna metro (line A).

Tickets

No church, museum or ticketed area needs to be entered; the walk ends at the foot of the Spanish Steps, about 150 meters from the Spagna metro.

The Pantheon is a church and a state museum with paid entry, a dress code and silence inside; going in is optional and not part of this walk.

Entering the area by the basin is a separate paid ticket in the daytime for non-residents and not part of this walk.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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This walk is told entirely from outside the paid archaeological park of the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine: you do not go inside, no ticket is needed, and none is sold or bundled. Use it before or after a visit inside, or instead of one. From Piazza del Colosseo you will hear how an amphitheater rose on Nero’s private lake, and who paid for it, then read the Arch of Constantine and its borrowed statues, stand over the forums where Augustus built a temple for revenge and Mussolini cut a road, follow a war up Trajan’s Column, stop outside the cell where Rome strangled its enemies, look down from the Capitol on the place where a crowd burned Caesar’s body, meet the bronze emperor who, the usual story goes, survived because people took him for someone else, stand under the cliff of the traitors, find the twins and the wolf in legend at the foot of the Palatine, and end in the Circus Maximus, where Tacitus says the fire of 64 began, near the Circo Massimo metro. The ancient writers are quoted by name, every legend is labeled, and every claim is sourced.

The stops

  1. The Colosseum: A Tyrant’s Lake for the People
  2. The Arch of Constantine: A Battle at a Bridge
  3. The Emperors’ Forums: A Temple for Revenge, a Road for a Dictator
  4. Trajan’s Column: A War in a Spiral
  5. The Mamertine Prison: The Cell Under the Capitol
  6. The Forum from the Capitol: Where the Crowd Burned Caesar
  7. Marcus Aurelius: The Emperor Saved by Another Name
  8. The Tarpeian Rock: The Cliff and the Traitors
  9. Via di San Teodoro: The Twins and the Wolf
  10. The Circus Maximus: Chariots, Crowds and the Fire

Finding the start

Start on Piazza del Colosseo at the Colosseo metro station (line B, and Colosseo-Fori Imperiali on line C). Come up to the street and stand on the open paving between the metro exits and the west end of the Colosseum, facing the Colosseum.

Terrain and access

About 3.4 kilometers, mostly on sidewalks, squares and cobbled lanes, ending on gravel and grass in the Circus Maximus park. One climb of about 17 meters to the Capitol, with steps between stops 5 and 6 (a step-free way by Via delle Tre Pile is described, to be checked on site), and a cobbled, fairly steep descent on Via di Monte Tarpeo. Busy crossings with lights on Via dei Fori Imperiali, at Piazza Venezia, on Via della Consolazione and on Via dei Cerchi. Very little shade: carry water in summer. No admissions; every monument is seen from outside. The walk ends about 350 meters from the Circo Massimo metro station (line B), one stop from Colosseo.

Tickets

No admission is needed.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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Rome tells wonderful legends: a fountain built in a single night to win a bride, a ghost who walks a bridge every September carrying her head. This self-guided audio walk tells them, and labels each one as a legend. Then it shows you the record, which is darker. A noble daughter shut away by a violent father, his murder, her trial and her beheading in 1599, with the pope’s family buying the confiscated estate. A philosopher burned alive in a market square in 1600, and the statue that started an election fight. A brotherhood that buried more than eight thousand of the city’s unclaimed dead. A prison built to be gentler. A prison that became an opera house. And an executioner who kept a notebook of 516 names. History, not horror: real people, named and told with care. Made for the evening on lit streets, and just as good by day. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. The Fountain Built in a Night
  2. The Cenci Palace: A Daughter Behind Barred Windows
  3. Campo de’ Fiori: 17 February 1600
  4. Piazza Farnese: The Pope Who Built the Tribunal
  5. The Brotherhood of the Dead
  6. The Carceri Nuove: A Gentler Prison
  7. The Chiesa Nuova: A Fountain Evicted for a Heretic
  8. Tor di Nona: From Prison to Opera House
  9. Piazza di Ponte: 11 September 1599
  10. Ponte Sant’Angelo: The Executioner’s Bridge

Finding the start

Start in Piazza Mattei, the small square with the Fontana delle Tartarughe (the Turtle Fountain), on its south-west side facing the fountain. Trams and buses stop at Largo di Torre Argentina, about four minutes’ walk to the north-west.

Terrain and access

About 2.4 kilometers from Piazza Mattei to the middle of Ponte Sant’Angelo, flat and step-free, paved almost everywhere with setts (sampietrini). Via Giulia has no sidewalks, and some lanes are narrow and shared with cars and scooters. Three crossings of busy roads: Via Arenula at the lights, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II at a marked crossing, and the Lungotevere at the head of the bridge. Lit streets throughout. Every stop is on a public street, square or bridge: no church, museum, prison or castle is entered. Made for the evening and usable by day; from May to August it is not dark until about 21:00. Several streets are quiet and residential: earbuds only, voices low. Campo de’ Fiori and the bridge are crowded late at night: mind your bag and phone.

Tickets

No tickets needed.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

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]]> Two Balconies: Communist Prague 1948 to 1989 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/prague-two-balconies/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:29:57 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/prague-two-balconies/ From Gottwald's balcony on Old Town Square to Havel's on Wenceslas Square, on the streets where Prague lived it

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On one balcony in February 1948, a Communist leader spoke as his party took power, and the photograph of that day was later retouched to erase a man who stood beside him. On another, in November 1989, a playwright just out of prison and the exiled reformer of 1968 stood side by side above a square full of people jingling their keys. This walk goes from the first balcony to the second and on to the top of Wenceslas Square: the student march of 17 November 1989 and its bronze hands, the theater that became a revolution’s headquarters, the museum front still patched where soldiers fired on it in 1968, and the two students, Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc, whose protest in 1969 Prague took twenty years to honor by name. Every claim is sourced and every dispute labeled; the record speaks, not the guide. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Jan Palach Square: Named Twice
  2. The Kinský Balcony: A Photograph and a Hat
  3. Národní 16: Bare Hands
  4. The Adria Palace: The Magic Lantern
  5. Můstek: A Lorry and a Square
  6. Melantrich: The Borrowed Balcony
  7. Wenceslas Square 39: Jan Zajíc
  8. The Statue and the Scarred Museum
  9. The Cross in the Pavement: Jan Palach

Finding the start

Start on Jan Palach Square (náměstí Jana Palacha) at the corner of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, by the bronze Jan Palach memorial plate, with the Rudolfinum across the tram street. Staroměstská metro station (line A) is about 100 meters away; trams stop at Staroměstská on 17. listopadu.

Terrain and access

About 2.9 kilometers on city streets and squares, step-free, with cobbles on most of the route and a gentle climb up Wenceslas Square at the end. No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside. Tram tracks are crossed on zebras and at one unmarked crossing; the only traffic lights are in front of the National Museum. The upper half of Wenceslas Square is a tram construction site until about mid-2027, so the last three stops may need small detours along signed walkways. The tour ends beside Muzeum metro station (lines A and C, with a lift at one entrance).

Tickets

No admissions needed; everything is seen from outside.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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]]> Josefov: A Thousand Years of Jewish Prague https://the3dtravel.com/tours/prague-josefov/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:29:43 +0000 https://the3dtravel.com/tours/prague-josefov/ From Kafka's corner to the cemetery wall: what the old Jewish Town kept, and who kept it

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Around 1900 Prague tore down almost all of its old Jewish Town. Six synagogues, a town hall and a cemetery were left standing. This walk goes from one to the next, entirely from the street, and asks at each what was kept and who kept it: the oldest synagogue in Europe still used for prayer and the rabbi who became famous for a legend he had nothing to do with; the emperor’s banker whose fortune was seized after his death; a town hall clock that runs backward; the city official who settled the claims for the demolished houses and helped found a museum to save what was inside them; the curators of 1942 who kept the possessions of families being deported; the names on the walls of the Pinkas Synagogue; and a cemetery the city could only trim. Real people, named from the record, told with care. Because nothing on the walk needs a ticket, it works any day, including Saturdays and Jewish holidays when the museum is closed.

The stops

  1. Kafka’s Corner: What Was Kept
  2. The Spanish Synagogue: The Brother and the Sisters
  3. Pařížská: The Avenue Over the Ghetto
  4. The Old-New Synagogue: The Rabbi Before the Legend
  5. The Jewish Town Hall: A Clock That Runs Backward
  6. The Klausen and the Ceremonial Hall: Saved From the Wreckage
  7. The Maisel Synagogue: The Emperor’s Banker
  8. The Pinkas Synagogue: A Museum for No One
  9. The Cemetery Wall: The Ground That Was Not Leveled

Finding the start

Start on náměstí Franze Kafky, the small square at the north-west corner of Old Town Square, between the church of St. Nicholas and the corner house with the bronze bust of Kafka. From Staroměstská metro (line A) walk east along Kaprova street, about 400 meters.

Terrain and access

Flat, about one and a half kilometers, with no steps on the route; setts and cobbles nearly everywhere, bumpy for wheelchairs and strollers. Thirteen street crossings, all zebras or unmarked, no traffic lights; the tram street 17. listopadu is not crossed. Crowded around the Old-New and Pinkas synagogues at midday. No admissions needed: everything is told from the street, and the museum’s sites are only pointed to. Staroměstská metro (line A) is about 400 meters from the start and 250 meters from the end and has no step-free entrance.

Tickets

No admissions needed: everything is told from the street.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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In May 1618 the Protestant lords of Bohemia threw two of the emperor’s governors and their secretary out of a window of Prague Castle. All three survived, and the Thirty Years’ War began. This walk follows that story downhill, outside the Castle gates: the Castle’s Habsburg front and a gate of 1614, the window and the four ways people explained the survival, the house where it was planned the night before, the square the winners rebuilt after White Mountain, the kings’ coronation road, Charles IV’s bridge and the palindrome legend, a saint put up for the wrong anniversary, the tower the Swedes never got past in 1648, the Jesuits who were expelled and came back to take over the old university, and the theater that carries the losers’ name, where Don Giovanni had its premiere. Mostly downhill, by the Castle Steps or by a no-stairs way down Nerudova. No tickets needed.

The stops

  1. Hradčany Square: The Castle from the Gate
  2. Above the Castle Steps: The Window of 1618
  3. The Smiřický Palace: The Night Before
  4. The Upper Square: What Victory Built
  5. The Bridge Towers: The Kings’ Road
  6. Charles Bridge: The Emperor’s Stone Bridge
  7. John of Nepomuk: The Winners’ Saint
  8. The Old Town Bridge Tower: Where the Siege Ended
  9. The Clementinum: Two Universities
  10. The Estates Theater: The Losers’ Name

Finding the start

Start on Hradčany Square, about 30 meters in front of the main gate of Prague Castle with the fighting giants on its piers. From the tram stop Pohořelec (trams 22 and 23) it is about 800 meters along Loretánská; from the tram stop Pražský hrad you can walk through the Castle courtyards to the square (security check).

Terrain and access

Mostly downhill, with about 25 meters of gentle climbing in all, about 2.8 kilometers (about 3 kilometers by the no-stairs variant), almost entirely on cobbles. The main route goes down the Castle Steps, a long stairway with a handrail (OpenStreetMap estimates about 200 steps). The no-stairs variant goes down the steep cobbled ramp Ke Hradu and Nerudova street instead, about 270 meters longer, with no steps; the walk says where it begins. Tram tracks cross Malostranské náměstí. Charles Bridge, Mostecká, Karlova and Old Town Square are very crowded from late morning, so an early start is best. No admissions needed; the tour has no narrated stop inside the Castle gates, and the Castle grounds ban playing sound aloud, so use earbuds.

Tickets

No admissions needed; the tour tells the Castle from outside its gates.

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What you get

  • An email from tours@the3dtravel.com with a link and an access code.
  • Use it on your phone or tablet in an up-to-date web browser, no app store needed. There is no account to set up before you start.
  • Download it on Wi-Fi before you go. After that it works offline: audio, text, map and pictures.
  • Your booking includes 2 phones, so two of you can follow along, each on your own. Extra phones are $2.95 each, or a group can share one phone on its speaker.
  • Play, pause and replay every part, skip back and ahead, or change the playback speed. Keep the screen on or tap play at each stop.

How it was made

Every fact in the narration is checked against a cited source, and legends are told as legends. The narration is written from that research. How our tours are made.

Image credits

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