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Basel City Highlights Walking Tour

Basel City Highlights Walking Tour

Basel · Switzerland

14 stops7.3 km1 h 28 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Basel to see its cathedral, historic viewpoints, old-town landmarks, bridges, gates, museums, and public art. Along the route, you will move between both sides of the Rhine and encounter places that reflect Basel’s civic, cultural, and artistic character. The walk is worth taking for its varied sequence of churches, museums, memorials, and distinctive urban scenes. Allow time to pause at each stop and take in the changing atmosphere of the city.

The walk

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

  1. Basel Cathedral

    Basel Cathedral

    A cathedral built over Basel’s Roman stronghold and an earlier eighth-century church

  2. Basler Pfalz

    Basler Pfalz

    Basler Pfalz is an attraction in Basel, Switzerland.

  3. Kleinbasel Altstadt

    Kleinbasel Altstadt

    Kleinbasel Altstadt is an attraction in Basel, Switzerland.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Helvetia auf der Reise

    Helvetia auf der Reise

    A bronze Helvetia leaves her coin, rests on the bridge, and watches the Rhine go by.

  6. Mittlere Brücke

    Mittlere Brücke

    Basel’s oldest Rhine crossing, built in the thirteenth century and rebuilt in nineteen oh three.

  7. Rathaus Basel

    Rathaus Basel

    A working town hall whose red façade records Basel’s earthquake, confederation and political power.

  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.