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Annecy: Landmarks, Gardens and Views

Annecy: Landmarks, Gardens and Views

Annecy · France

14 stops6.1 km1 h 13 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Follow a welcoming route through Annecy’s museums, churches, parks, galleries and waterside viewpoints. You will see distinctive historic buildings, open green spaces and changing perspectives across the walk. Each pause offers a different way to appreciate the city’s character, from the intimate Canal du Vassé to the broad outlooks at Panorama du lac and Panoramique Grande Jeanne. Take your time and let the variety of these stops shape your experience.

The walk

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

  1. Palais de I'Île

    Palais de I'Île

    A medieval river stronghold that became Annecy’s prison, court and museum

  2. Jardins de l'Europe

    Jardins de l'Europe

    A former marshy island turned promenade, shaped by plague, convents, empire and urban planning.

  3. Panorama du lac

    Panorama du lac

    Panorama du lac is an attraction in Annecy, France.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Pont des Amours

    Pont des Amours

    A much-rebuilt footbridge where Annecy’s lake water enters the city, wrapped in a love story or two.

  6. Le Pâquier

    Le Pâquier

    A lakeside park whose open lawns survived a century of plans to build over them.

  7. Canal du Vassé

    Canal du Vassé

    Canal du Vassé is a park and tourism attraction in Annecy, France.

  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.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • 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.