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Nuremberg Historic Core and Cultural Heritage Walk

Nuremberg Historic Core and Cultural Heritage Walk

Nuremberg · Germany

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Nuremberg’s historic center, encountering churches, a market attraction, a bridge, a historic house, city walls, museums, a tower and a park. The route brings together religious architecture, civic history, craftsmanship, art and urban memorials. Along the way, you can see how different kinds of places contribute to Nuremberg’s cultural identity. Take this walk for a varied introduction to the city’s built heritage and public culture.

The walk

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

  1. Church of Our Lady, Nuremberg

    Church of Our Lady, Nuremberg

    A royal chapel, a Reformation church, and home to Nuremberg’s famous clockwork electors.

  2. Nuremberg Christmas Market

    Nuremberg Christmas Market

    The Nürnberger Christkindlesmarkt, an attraction in Nuremberg, Germany.

  3. Museumsbrücke

    Museumsbrücke

    A bridge rebuilt after war, carrying a hidden flood tunnel beneath its eighteenth-century appearance.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Nassauer House

    Nassauer House

    Nuremberg’s sole surviving medieval residential tower, rebuilt around a disputed name and royal heraldry.

  6. St. Lawrence Church

    St. Lawrence Church

    A citizens’ Gothic church shaped by rivalry, Reformation, war, and two extraordinary works of art.

  7. Frauentor

    Frauentor

    A medieval city gate rebuilt in 1558, now leading pedestrians into Nuremberg’s Handwerkerhof.

  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.

  • 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.