Historic Vannes: Walls, Gates and Gardens
Vannes · France
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Vannes while seeing its cathedral, museum, historic buildings, churches, fortified walls and gates. Along the way, pause in the squares, parks and gardens that give the city’s historic centre room to breathe. This route is worth taking for the close view of Vannes’s built heritage and the changing atmosphere between its streets, fortifications and green spaces.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Vannes Cathedral
Seven centuries of rebuilding, from a Romanesque tower to a Gothic cathedral and minor basilica.
La Cohue
A medieval market hall that became Vannes’s courthouse, theatre, and art museum.
Vannes and His Wife
A painted granite couple whose identities and original purpose remain unknown
Place des Lices (Vannes)
A market square whose name recalls medieval tournaments and whose shape began as a castle’s exercise ground.
Tour du Connétable
A fortress tower that housed a duke’s commander, then became a prison, school, and exhibition space.
Vannes city walls
A working defence that grew with Vannes, then was sold off, demolished, and rescued.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 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.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
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.