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Ahmedabad History and Public Spaces Walk

Ahmedabad History and Public Spaces Walk

Ahmedabad · India

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Ahmedabad’s historic center to see tombs, mosques, a temple, a fort and a city gate before reaching its lively squares and riverfront parks. Look closely at carved stonework, gateways and prayer spaces, then enjoy the Glow Garden, flower park and open views along the Sabarmati. The route brings together Ahmedabad’s layered religious and civic history with the public places where the city gathers today.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Ahmad Shah's Tomb

    Ahmad Shah's Tomb

    A royal mausoleum where Ahmad Shah’s dynasty, stone screens, and daily court music still meet.

  2. Jama Mosque, Ahmedabad

    Jama Mosque, Ahmedabad

    A fifteenth-century Friday mosque where Gujarat’s Islamic and temple traditions meet in stone.

  3. Glow Garden

    Glow Garden

    Glow Garden is an attraction in Ahmedabad, India.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

    Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

    A sixteenth-century mosque whose carved stone lattice became Ahmedabad’s unofficial emblem

  6. Hutheesing Jain Temple

    Hutheesing Jain Temple

    A Jain temple built during famine, where marble, merchant wealth, and architectural ambition meet.

  7. Bhadra Fort

    Bhadra Fort

    A royal citadel that became a prison, a market gateway, and Ahmedabad’s civic stage.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.