Audio Walks

Europe

Austria

Vienna

Emperors, coffee, waltzes, Freud & the Ring — 44 stops · Start walking →

Belgium

Bruges

A medieval city preserved by three centuries of failure: belfry, canals, Van Eyck and beer — 44 stops · Start walking →

Brussels

Guild houses, wild yeast beer, Horta staircases, the Congo, the EU quarter and a very small bronze boy — 44 stops · Start walking →

Croatia

Dubrovnik

A republic that never fought, walls never breached, and a town loved half to death — 44 stops · Start walking →

Split

A Roman palace that a city moved into and never left, a pine hill, a ball game from nineteen oh eight and the best fish on the Adriatic — 44 stops · Start walking →

Czechia

Prague

Kings, alchemists, golems, occupations & beer — 42 stops · Start walking →

Denmark

Copenhagen

Fires, kings, harbour baths and four hundred kilometres of cycle lane — 44 stops · Start walking →

Estonia

Tallinn

A Hanseatic town that kept its walls, a KGB floor that did not exist, a field where a quarter of a nation sang, and a state that runs online — 44 stops · Start walking →

France

Paris

Kings, revolution, cafes, bones & the Seine — 49 stops · Start walking →

Germany

Berlin

Prussia, dictatorship, division, techno & rebuilding — 44 stops · Start walking →

Munich

Baroque, beer gardens, the years the city would rather forget, a surfable wave and a river you can swim in — 44 stops · Start walking →

Greece

Athens

Democracy, marble, occupation, rebetiko & a city rebuilt on itself — 44 stops · Start walking →

Hungary

Budapest

Kings, sieges, baths, ruin bars & revolutions — 43 stops · Start walking →

Ireland

Cork

The Rebel City — 33 stops · Start walking →

Dublin

Rebels, writers, pints & plates — 100 stops · Start walking →

Galway

Tribes, trad & the Atlantic — 32 stops · Start walking →

Italy

Florence

Domes, Medici, marble, floods & the invention of perspective — 44 stops · Start walking →

Naples

A Greek grid, a Spanish garrison, eight dynasties and the best museum in Italy — 44 stops · Start walking →

Rome

Emperors, popes, martyrs, fountains & ruins — 46 stops · Start walking →

Venice

Doges, plague, glass, high water & a republic that lasted eleven centuries — 44 stops · Start walking →

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Merchants, canals, painters, hiding places & bicycles — 44 stops · Start walking →

Poland

Kraków

Kings, dragons, the ghetto, Solidarity & the largest square in Europe — 44 stops · Start walking →

Warsaw

An old town rebuilt from paintings, two uprisings, Stalin's skyscraper, milk bars and a wild river bank — 44 stops · Start walking →

Portugal

Lisbon

Earthquake, caravels, fado, tiles & a revolution with flowers — 44 stops · Start walking →

Porto

Granite, azulejo, six bridges and the oldest demarcated wine region on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Slovenia

Ljubljana

One architect's city, a dragon on the bridges, a squatted barracks, orange wine and a forest twenty minutes from the main square — 44 stops · Start walking →

Spain

Barcelona

Romans, Gaudi, anarchists, markets & the sea — 44 stops · Start walking →

Madrid

Habsburgs, Goya, a siege, tapas & the highest capital in Europe — 44 stops · Start walking →

Seville

A minaret with a bell tower, the only port to the Americas, and two weeks the city lives for — 44 stops · Start walking →

Sweden

Stockholm

Fourteen islands, a warship raised from the mud, and art in ninety metro stations — 44 stops · Start walking →

Türkiye

Istanbul

Byzantium, sultans, bazaars, baths & the Bosphorus — 44 stops · Start walking →

United Kingdom

Edinburgh

Volcanoes, bodysnatchers, philosophers & the world's biggest festival — 44 stops · Start walking →

London

Crowns, plague, fire, Blitz & the river — 48 stops · Start walking →

The Americas

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Immigration, tango, beef, books & a plaza where everything happened — 44 stops · Start walking →

Bolivia

La Paz

La Paz in 44 stops: the highest seat of government on earth, cable cars over the canyon, the Witches' Market, El Alto and Illimani — 44 stops · Start walking →

Sucre

Sucre in 44 stops: the white city where Bolivia was declared, Potosí's silver and what it cost, Jalq'a weaving and ten thousand dinosaur footprints — 44 stops · Start walking →

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro

A bay mistaken for a river, a forest replanted by hand, and the place samba was invented — 44 stops · Start walking →

Salvador

The first capital of Brazil and the largest slave port in the Americas: candomble, capoeira, carnival and gold on top of it — 44 stops · Start walking →

São Paulo

São Paulo in 44 stops: the biggest city in the Americas, coffee money on Paulista, five migrations, MASP on its red beams and the best food on the continent — 44 stops · Start walking →

Canada

Montreal

A French colony on an Iroquoian island that became a fur capital: outside staircases, boiled bagels, smoked meat and a mountain in the middle — 44 stops · Start walking →

Québec City

The only walled city north of Mexico: Champlain's landing place, a fifteen minute battle that decided a continent, three metres of snow a year and far too much maple syrup — 44 stops · Start walking →

Toronto

Treaty land, a muddy garrison town, and half a city born somewhere else — 44 stops · Start walking →

Chile

Santiago

Santiago in 44 stops: La Moneda and eleven September, Neruda's house, the cordillera above the smog, and a country still arguing about its constitution — 44 stops · Start walking →

Valparaiso

Forty two hills, a hundred-year hangover from the Panama Canal, and every wall painted twice — 44 stops · Start walking →

Colombia

Bogotá

Muisca gold, a city at 2,640 metres, and a hundred and twenty kilometres of road closed every Sunday — 44 stops · Start walking →

Cartagena

A fortress city on the Caribbean: eleven kilometres of wall, the slave port, Getsemani and Palenque — 44 stops · Start walking →

Medellín

Medellín in 44 stops: Botero in the street, Comuna 13 and the escalators, cable cars over the barrios, and a city that refuses to be a Netflix series — 44 stops · Start walking →

Cuba

Havana

A Spanish treasure port, a revolution, and a sea wall that the whole city sits on — 44 stops · Start walking →

Ecuador

Quito

The best preserved colonial centre in the Americas, on the equator at 2,850 metres under a live volcano — 44 stops · Start walking →

El Salvador

San Salvador

San Salvador in 44 stops: Romero's crypt, the memorial wall, a volcano over the city, a Maya village buried in ash and the best pupusas anywhere — 44 stops · Start walking →

Guatemala

Antigua

Empire, earthquakes, movies, Maya & nightlife — 20 stops · Start walking →

Honduras

Copán Ruinas

Copán in 44 stops: the finest sculpture in the Maya world, a king beheaded by a vassal, a painted temple buried whole, and an unfinished altar — 44 stops · Start walking →

Mexico

Guanajuato

Guanajuato in 44 stops: a silver town stacked up a ravine, the granary where independence began, tunnels under the streets and thirty thousand students — 44 stops · Start walking →

Mexico City

Aztec stones, muralists, mezcal & a capital sinking into its own lake — 44 stops · Start walking →

Mérida

Mérida in 44 stops: a Maya city under a conquistador's town, henequen mansions on the Paseo, cenotes in an asteroid crater and cochinita pibil — 44 stops · Start walking →

Oaxaca

Sixteen indigenous peoples, seven moles, a Zapotec city on a flattened mountain and more mezcal than is sensible — 44 stops · Start walking →

Nicaragua

Granada

Granada in 44 stops: five hundred years on a volcanic lake, the American who burned it, the isletas, Masaya and the best vigorón in Nicaragua — 44 stops · Start walking →

León

León in 44 stops: the biggest cathedral in Central America and its white roof, Darío's house, the insurrection, and a volcano you can slide down — 44 stops · Start walking →

Panama

Panama City

Silver, mules, a canal, a hundred banks and the largest merchant fleet on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Peru

Arequipa

Arequipa in 44 stops: the white city carved from volcanic stone, a convent the size of a town, three volcanoes and the best picanterías in Peru — 44 stops · Start walking →

Cusco

Qosqo, the navel of the world: Inca walls, a conquest told straight and the road to Machu Picchu — 44 stops · Start walking →

Lima

A desert capital with no rain, four hundred pyramids inside it, and the best food in the Americas — 44 stops · Start walking →

United States

Boston

Where the Revolution started, plus abolitionists on Beacon Hill, a famine that remade the city, the oldest ballpark in baseball and a serious argument about cannoli — 44 stops · Start walking →

Chicago

The city that burned down and invented the skyscraper: elevated trains, the stockyards, the Great Migration, three kinds of music and an argument about pizza — 44 stops · Start walking →

New Orleans

Congo Square, a river that built the city, and the music that came out of both — 44 stops · Start walking →

New York

Wall Street, tenements, jazz, the grid & eight hundred languages — 44 stops · Start walking →

San Francisco

Gold, cable cars, an earthquake, the Beats, the Castro, the Summer of Love, a very orange bridge and the fog that has its own name — 44 stops · Start walking →

Washington DC

A capital laid out on paper in seventeen ninety one: free museums, memorials open all night, Black Broadway, half smokes and seven hundred thousand people with no vote — 44 stops · Start walking →

Uruguay

Montevideo

Artigas, candombe, four World Cup stars, the world's first legal cannabis market and twenty two kilometres of seafront — 44 stops · Start walking →

Africa

Egypt

Alexandria

Alexandria in 44 stops: the lighthouse, the library, Cleopatra's palace under the harbour, Cavafy's flat and the best fish in Egypt — 44 stops · Start walking →

Cairo

Pyramids, a thousand minarets, and the oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world — 44 stops · Start walking →

Luxor

Karnak, the Valley of the Kings and a town living on top of the archaeology — 44 stops · Start walking →

Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

Lucy, Adwa, Lalibela and the birthplace of coffee: a city at 2,355 metres with its own calendar, clock and alphabet — 44 stops · Start walking →

Lalibela

Lalibela in 44 stops: eleven churches cut downwards into solid rock, a Jerusalem in the Ethiopian highlands, and the chanting that starts at four in the morning — 44 stops · Start walking →

Ghana

Accra

The first African country to take its independence, and forty forts on one coast — 44 stops · Start walking →

Kenya

Nairobi

A railway depot that became a capital, and the only national park inside a city — 44 stops · Start walking →

Morocco

Casablanca

Casablanca in 44 stops: the greatest art deco city in Africa, a mosque built out over the Atlantic, the shanty town that made a band, and the film that was never shot here — 44 stops · Start walking →

Fes

A free self-guided audio walk through Fes el Bali — 44 stops · Start walking →

Marrakech

A red walled medina, Saharan trade, Amazigh mountains & a square that is a UNESCO masterpiece — 44 stops · Start walking →

Nigeria

Lagos

A Yoruba island town that became a slave port, a British colony, a capital and then Africa's biggest city: Fela, Nollywood, jollof and eleven kilometres of bridge — 44 stops · Start walking →

Rwanda

Kigali

Kigali in 44 stops: the hills, the memorial, umuganda and the moto taxis, and a city rebuilt from nothing in thirty years — 44 stops · Start walking →

Senegal

Dakar

The far west of Africa: Goree and its argument, the brotherhoods, mbalax and rice and fish from one bowl — 44 stops · Start walking →

South Africa

Cape Town

A mountain, a garden planted in 1652, a prison island and a city still arguing with itself — 44 stops · Start walking →

Johannesburg

Johannesburg in 44 stops: the gold reef, Constitution Hill, Soweto and the mine dumps, and the most unequal skyline on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Tanzania

Zanzibar

Stone Town: coral rag, carved doors, the slave market site and a thousand years of Indian Ocean trade — 44 stops · Start walking →

Tunisia

Tunis

Carthage, a UNESCO medina, the best Roman mosaics on earth, and the street where the Arab Spring started — 44 stops · Start walking →

Asia

China

Beijing

An eight kilometre axis, nine thousand rooms, grey brick lanes, a park full of dancing pensioners and the best duck on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Hong Kong

A rock taken for the opium trade, forty per cent country park, and the best food density on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Xi'an

Thirteen dynasties, thirteen kilometres of wall you can cycle, an army of eight thousand, and the best noodles in China — 44 stops · Start walking →

India

Delhi

Eight cities on one piece of ground, a thousand years of it, and the best street food in India — 44 stops · Start walking →

Jaipur

A city designed on a grid in seventeen twenty seven, a stone observatory that still keeps time, a hill fort of mirrors and the best fried breakfast in India — 44 stops · Start walking →

Varanasi

The oldest continuously living city in the world, eighty-eight ghats and a fire that never goes out — 44 stops · Start walking →

Israel

Jerusalem

Three faiths, four quarters and three thousand years in one square kilometre — 44 stops · Start walking →

Japan

Kyoto

A thousand years of capital, Zen gravel, geiko & a canal over a mountain — 44 stops · Start walking →

Osaka

The nation's kitchen: a merchant city with its own dialect, its own comedy and the best food in Japan — 44 stops · Start walking →

Tokyo

Shoguns, firestorms, neon, bullet trains & a forest planted by hand — 44 stops · Start walking →

Laos

Luang Prabang

Thirty three monasteries on a peninsula between two rivers, an alms round at dawn, turquoise waterfalls and the most bombed country on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur

A muddy river junction that tin turned into a capital: clan temples, a Malay village under the towers, banana leaf rice and the best hawker food in Asia — 44 stops · Start walking →

Nepal

Kathmandu

Three royal cities in one valley: Newar carving, living goddesses, stupas and the road to the mountains — 44 stops · Start walking →

Singapore

Singapore

A free port, four languages, hawker food & a skyline built on reclaimed sea — 44 stops · Start walking →

South Korea

Seoul

Palaces, a war that never formally ended, K-pop & a city rebuilt from nothing — 44 stops · Start walking →

Taiwan

Taipei

Temples, night markets, hot springs and thirty eight years of martial law — 44 stops · Start walking →

Thailand

Bangkok

Gilded temples, canals, night markets & a capital built to replace a lost one — 44 stops · Start walking →

Vietnam

Hanoi

Thirty six streets, a returned sword, and the best street food in Asia — 44 stops · Start walking →

Hoi An

A silted up port that trade forgot, four hundred year old merchant houses, the best noodles in Vietnam and a valley of Cham towers — 44 stops · Start walking →

Oceania

Australia

Hobart

nipaluna: convict sandstone, a mountain over the city, a museum dug into a cliff and forty thousand years of Palawa country — 44 stops · Start walking →

Melbourne

Kulin country, a gold rush, and a mile-square grid with a second city hidden in its lanes — 44 stops · Start walking →

Sydney

Sixty-five thousand years of Gadigal country, a convict colony and a harbour that runs the city — 44 stops · Start walking →

New Zealand

Auckland

Tamaki Makaurau: fifty three volcanoes, two harbours, the biggest Polynesian city on earth and a treaty still being argued over — 44 stops · Start walking →

Wellington

A capital on a fault line: Te Papa, Parliament, Cuba Street, the birds of Zealandia and the windiest streets on earth — 44 stops · Start walking →