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Strasbourg: History and Monuments

Strasbourg: History and Monuments

Strasbourg · France

14 stops7.7 km1 h 33 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Strasbourg’s layered history, from the defensive Barrage Vauban and historic churches to grand palaces, civic monuments, and the cathedral. Along the route, you will see how religious, military, political, and cultural landmarks share the city’s streets. The sequence brings major monuments together with quieter reminders of everyday urban history, including the former ice houses. Spend the morning following this rewarding route at an unhurried pace, with a new chapter of Strasbourg’s past waiting at every stop.

The walk

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

  1. Barrage Vauban

    Barrage Vauban

    A seventeenth-century flood-gate designed to drown an invading army in a man-made swamp.

  2. Sainte-Aurélie Church

    Sainte-Aurélie Church

    A former 'gardeners' church' blending a twelfth-century tower with an eighteenth-century Baroque interior.

  3. Saint John's Church, Strasbourg

    Saint John's Church, Strasbourg

    A former convent church that served as a secret sanctuary for escaped prisoners of war during the second world war.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux Church

    Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux Church

    One medieval church, divided between Protestant and Catholic worship for centuries

  6. Anciennes Glacières de Strasbourg

    Anciennes Glacières de Strasbourg

    A nineteenth-century artificial ice factory, preserved inside a luxury hotel beside the Ill.

  7. Saint-Nicolas' Church

    Saint-Nicolas' Church

    A riverside church built over an older foundation, with a Silbermann organ and an Albert Schweitzer connection.

  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

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  • 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.