Basel Audio Tours – Tour Basel with historical personalities

The free Basel Audio Tours app turns a walk through the Old Town into an audio experience! On five exciting tours, you will be accompanied by well-known personalities from Basel’s history – they tell their stories with humour, anecdotes and historical depth.

Whether humanist, artist or alchemist – each voice offers a unique perspective on the city, brings historical places to life and invites you to rediscover Basel. In entertaining extracts from their lives, they comment on their surroundings and favourite places, taking you on a journey through time.

Basel Audio Tours combine in-depth knowledge with modern technology, allowing you to experience the city in a new way – entertaining, interactive and completely flexible in terms of time.

The tours at a glance:

Erasmus of Rotterdam, the most important humanist of his time, accompanies you to the most historic place in Basel: the cathedral hill.

Paracelsus, the doctor and alchemist, takes you on an energizing tour from Münsterhügel to Spalenhügel, where the Pharmacy Museum awaits.

Jean Tinguely, the mischievous inventor of moving art, lets you see Basel through his playful, ironic eyes – from the pulsating centre of the Old Town to the tranquil Spalenhügel.

Irène Zurkinden, the freedom-loving painter and cosmopolitan, accompanies you on an inspiring walk over the Spalenhügel, past her former studio to the Spalentor.

Hans Holbein the Younger, the celebrated master of Renaissance portrait art, takes you on a journey through artistic Basel – from the Kunstmuseum across both banks of the Rhine to the lively Kleinbasel.

What you can expect:

- Five different walking tours through the Basel Old Town

- Exciting stories and personalities

- Historically sound content, told in a lively, entertaining and vivid way

- Optional: augmented reality elements in the Erasmus tour for even more immersion

- Freely selectable routes with different durations

Languages
German, English, French, Italian

Duration
1 to 2 hours

Starting point
Marktplatz (corner of Freie Strasse)

End point
Marktplatz

Important information
Download the audio tours directly onto your smartphone! The free “Basel Audio Tours” app is available from the App Store and Google Play. Don’t forget your headphones!