Vienna, Austria
Vienna self-guided walking tours
Audio walks you take at your own pace, on your own phone: audio, text, a map and pictures, all working offline. Each one follows a different question through Vienna.
This is a self-guided smartphone experience. No human guide will meet you. Start when you want, pause whenever you like, explore side streets, and go at your own pace.
Which walk is for you?
- Vienna After Dark: Plague, Executions and the Basilisk. What the old city feared in the dark, and what was really there, on lit streets from Stephansplatz to the Sonnenfelsgasse. 8 stops, about 80 minutes, 2.2 km (1.4 mi). Carries a content advisory.
- Four Powers, One City: Vienna 1945 to 1955. The real occupied city behind the 1949 film The Third Man, from the Soviet memorial to the Hoher Markt. 8 stops, about 100 minutes, 3.6 km (2.2 mi). Carries a content advisory.
- Inside the Ring: One Square Mile That Ran an Empire. How the Habsburgs held power in a few streets of Vienna, and how it ended, from St. Stephen’s to the Imperial Crypt. 10 stops, about 85 minutes, 2 km (1.2 mi). Carries a content advisory.
- Mozart’s Vienna: the Ten Years After Salzburg. One man’s ten years in his own letters, from the archbishop’s table to the Burggarten, in nine stops. 9 stops, about 95 minutes, 3.7 km (2.3 mi). Carries a content advisory.
Where each tour starts
- Vienna After Dark: starts at Stephansfreithof, ends at Sonnenfelsgasse.
- Four Powers, One City: starts at Schwarzenbergplatz, ends at Hoher Markt.
- Inside the Ring: starts at Stephansdom, ends at Kapuzinergruft.
- Mozart’s Vienna: starts at Deutschordenshaus, ends at Mozart-Denkmal (Wien).
Each tour page explains how to find its start, with directions from the nearest public transport.
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