WALK & TELL
Let someonefrom the pastwalk you through their city.
Audio walks told by the people who lived there. Free to try. Works with no signal.
Abdallah al-Ghalibthe Saadian sultan who rebuilt MarrakeshMedina, MarrakeshStart here
Six doors into six cities.
How it works
No group. No guide to tip. No signal needed.
1
Pick a walk
An hour in one quarter, or a day of highlights. Every stop is a real place, checked on foot.
2
Meet your guide
Someone from the city's own past — a sultan, a poet, a mason — tells it from their own time.
The guides
Sultans, princes, poets, corsairs, architects, saints.
Real people from the city's past. Their words are imagined; the facts are not.
Sidi Ali ou Amar
the ksar's own marabout saint
Aït Benhaddou
Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse
1859–1928
King Mongkut's last living son
Bangkok
Arnold Rikli
1823–1906
Bled's Swiss sun-cure doctor
Bled
Frigyes Schulek
1841–1919
the Fisherman's Bastion architect
Budapest
Esther Bensimon
a mellah seamstress
Casablanca
Augustus Pugin
1812–1852
the clock tower's designer
City of Westminster
Ahmed al-Inglizi
the city's 18th-century architect
Essaouira
Leo Africanus
c.1494–c.1554
Fez's exiled chronicler
Fez
Ibn al-Khatib
1313–1374
Granada's exiled poet-vizier
Fez
Walenty Krzak
1849–1921
the Głogowa manor's coachman
Głogowa
Washington Irving
1783–1859
American writer who lodged in the Alhambra
Granada
Evliya Çelebi
1611–1682
the sultan’s runaway page
Istanbul
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Younger
c. 1498–1565
the town's heretic bishop
Koper / Capodistria
Ivan Hribar
1851–1941
the city's rebuilding mayor
Ljubljana
José Rodríguez de Losada
1797–1870
the clockmaker behind Sol's clock
Madrid
Ba Ahmed ibn Musa
c.1841–1900
the sultan's grand vizier
Marrakesh
Mohammed ben Larbi Jamai
c.1840–1897
a fallen grand vizier
Meknes
Luca Beltrami
1854–1933
the Sforza Castle's restorer
Milan
Gerard Aungier
1640–1677
Bombay's East India Company governor
Mumbai
Yasui Dōton
c.1533–1615
the merchant who dug Dotonbori
Osaka
Élodie
a Seine riverside bookseller
Paris
Victor Hugo
1802–1885
the novelist who saved Notre-Dame
Paris
Camilo Castelo Branco
1825–1890
the city's jailed novelist
Porto
Yaqub al-Mansur
c. 1160–1199
the caliph who built Rabat
Rabat
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475–1564
the sculptor of the Capitoline
Rome
Joon Lee
a Yeonnam-dong songwriter
Seoul
Susona
legendary daughter of the old Jewish quarter
Seville
Tom Feeney
Sydney's old rat-catcher
Sydney
Walter Burton Harris
1866–1933
The Times' Morocco correspondent
Tangier
Ōta Dōkan
1432–1486
the builder of Edo Castle
Tokyo
Walter Spies
1895–1942
the painter of Campuhan
Ubud District
Berto Barbarani
1872–1945
Verona's dialect poet
Verona
Sir George Grey
1812–1898
the governor who kept the Domain
Auckland
Antoni Gaudí
1852–1926
the Sagrada Família's architect
Barcelona
Jakob
1872–1934
a Bovec shepherd and carter
Bovec
Hubert Lyautey
1854–1934
France's first Resident-General
Casablanca
Moulay Ali ibn Rashid
the town's founder
Chefchaouen
Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum
c.1860–1906
the ruler who freed the port
Dubai
Abu Inan Faris
1329–1358
the madrasa-building Marinid sultan
Fez
Madani el Glaoui
c.1866–1918
the sultan's Grand Vizier
Fez
Fatima al-Fihri
d. c. 880
founder of al-Qarawiyyin
Fez
Basil of Caesarea
c. 330–379
the bishop who ordered the cells
Göreme
Hui Bon Hoa
c.1845–1901
Saigon's immigrant property king
Ho Chi Minh City
Jernej
1868–1941
a valley woodsman and log-driver
Kamnik
Marquis of Pombal
1699–1782
the king's ruthless chief minister
Lisbon
Ramón del Valle-Inclán
1866–1936
bearded Galician café-writer of Madrid
Madrid
Abdallah al-Ghalib
c. 1517–1574
the Saadian sultan who rebuilt Marrakesh
Marrakesh
Moulay Ismail
1645–1727
the sultan who built Meknes
Meknes
Robert Hoddle
1794–1881
the surveyor who drew the grid
Melbourne
Idris I
c. 745–791
Morocco's first ruler, buried here
Moulay Idriss Zerhoun
Sir Edwin Lutyens
1869–1944
the architect of New Delhi
New Delhi
El Madani El Glaoui
1866–1918
the kasbah’s Glaoui lord
Ouarzazate
Auguste Ottin
1811–1890
a Second Empire stone-carver
Paris
José Marques da Silva
1869–1947
the architect of São Bento station
Porto
Jan Janszoon
c. 1570–c. 1641
the Bou Regreg corsair admiral
Rabat
Žiga Zois
1747–1819
the valley's ironmaster and patron
Ribčev Laz
José Martín de Aldehuela
1729–1802
the bridge's architect
Ronda
Diego de Aranda
a scribe of the Indies fleet
Seville
Johannes Frischauf
1837–1924
the Savinja Alps' first surveyor
Solčava
Thomas Playfair
1832–1893
the Rocks butcher turned Sydney mayor
Sydney
Younes
a medina bookseller
Tangier
Italo Svevo
1861–1928
the novelist who sold ships' paint
Trieste
Canaletto
1697–1768
Venice's view-painter
Venice
Juba II
48 BC–AD 23
king of Mauretania
Volubilis
From the walks
What walkers said.
Just added
New guides, new ground.
Top walks
The ones people finish and rate.
For hosts
Do you run a riad, a hostel, or tours?
Give your guests a walking tour of your city, told by someone from its past. It costs you nothing, there is nothing for them to pay, and there is no app for either of you to install.
- A card for the welcome book. One page with your own QR code. Your guests scan it and start walking.
- A map of every walk. The route drawn on the streets, every stop in order, and who tells it — for the guest who wants to see where it goes first.
- A map of the city. The sights worth crossing town for, with a line on each saying what it is. Useful even to a guest who never scans anything.
- Words you can paste. A few lines for your listing and your check-in message, written to be used as they are.
- It never goes stale. Your code points at your whole city, so every walk we add later reaches your guests without you reprinting a thing.
Get your free host kitTwo minutes. No card, no contract.
Take it offline
Add it to your home screen.
No app store. Share → Add to Home Screen on iPhone, Install on Android. Download a walk on Wi-Fi; it plays with no signal.
Open the appHostels, cafés, tour desks
Give your guests a guide.
A poster by the till, a code at reception. Free for you, free for them.
