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Delft Historic Centre Canals

Delft Historic Centre Canals

Delft · Netherlands

8 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow Delft’s historic centre canals through a sequence of narrow passages, old buildings, public spaces and waterside views. Look for how façades, bridges and lanes meet the water, revealing the working shape of the old town. This walk is worth taking because each pause offers a different way to read Delft through its canals, from intimate house fronts to civic landmarks and the city gate. Take your time: the pleasure lies in noticing the changing scale and character of the canal-side streets.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 8. The rest are in the app.

  1. The Smallest House of Delft

    The Smallest House of Delft

    A tiny Delft stop with an honest mystery: its own building history is not recorded here.

  2. Gemeenlandshuis Delft

    Gemeenlandshuis Delft

    A sixteenth-century Delft building that became the home of Delfland’s water authority.

  3. Old Church

    Old Church

    Old Church, a Christian church and museum in Delft

  4. 2 more stops on this walk, in the app

  5. Bonte Ossteeg Mural

    Bonte Ossteeg mural, a tourism attraction in Delft, Netherlands.

  6. Delft City Hall

    Delft City Hall

    A Renaissance city hall wrapped around Delft’s medieval prison tower

  7. Museum Paul Tétar van Elven

    Museum Paul Tétar van Elven

    Museum Paul Tétar Van Elven, a museum on Koornmarkt in Delft

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. 2 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

2 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 8 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.