Skip to content
Gowalko
Get the app
Basel Old Town: Medieval Lanes and Guild Houses

Basel Old Town: Medieval Lanes and Guild Houses

Basel · Switzerland

4 stops2.3 km28 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Begin at Basel Cathedral, a church that gives the walk a clear landmark and a place to focus on Basel’s medieval character. Continue to the Medieval City Wall at Steinenberg, an attraction where the city’s former defenses bring the shape of the old town into view. Pause at Spalentor, a city gate, to consider how people once entered and left the fortified town. Finish in Kleinbasel Altstadt, an attraction that broadens the walk’s view of old-town lanes, façades, and guild-house traditions.

The walk

  1. Basel Cathedral

    Basel Cathedral

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

  2. Medieval City Wall at Steinenberg

    A tourism attraction identified as the Medieval City Wall at Steinenberg.

  3. Spalentor

    Spalentor

    A surviving gate that carries Basel’s medieval walls through the city’s nineteenth-century transformation.

  4. Kleinbasel Altstadt

    Kleinbasel Altstadt

    Kleinbasel Altstadt is an attraction in Basel, Switzerland.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

More walks in Basel

5 walks
Featured14 stopsBasel · Switzerland

Basel City Highlights Walking Tour

7.3 km1 h 28 min6 stopsBasel · Switzerland

Basel Fasnacht Carnival Walk

3.0 km36 min14 stopsBasel · Switzerland

Basel Museums and Galleries Walk

6.3 km1 h 17 min

How a walk works

The guide starts talking when you arrive.

This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.

  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.

Continue 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.