Photo: Herbert Frank from Wien (Vienna), AT (CC BY 2.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of the old town of Avignon away from the papal palace, which has its own tour with the cathedral and the bridge. It begins at the collegiate church of Saint-Agricol, enlarged by John XXII, and the Palais du Roure, built for the Florentine Baroncelli family in the fifteenth century. To the south come the Musée Calvet in an eighteenth-century town palace, the Musée lapidaire in the old Jesuit chapel, the Livrée Ceccano, one of the cardinals' palaces of the papal court, and the Musée Angladon in a house of 1694, and the Gothic collegiate church of Saint-Didier. North-east lies the synagogue on the Place Jérusalem, in the old Jewish quarter, the carrière, built in the late 1840s with a round prayer hall, and the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre with its walnut doors. On the Place Pie stand Les Halles, the covered market of 1899, and the fourteenth-century Tour Saint-Jean-le-Vieux. The walk ends among the dyers' workshops along the canal of the Sorgue, at the bell tower of the Cordeliers, the chapel of the Pénitents Gris and the rue des Teinturiers.
14 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 205 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 38 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Church of Saint-Agricol, Palais du Roure, Musée Calvet, Musée lapidaire, Livrée Ceccano.
Musée Angladon, Church of Saint-Didier, Avignon Synagogue.
Church of Saint-Pierre, Les Halles, Tour Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, Cordeliers Tower, Chapelle des Pénitents Gris, Rue des Teinturiers.
The Florentine house built for the Baroncelli family, with Pierre Baroncelli named as builder in 1469, turned inward around its courtyard.
The museum of carved stone in the Jesuit college's chapel, built between 1620 and 1655, its nave lined with Greek and Roman sculpture.
A cardinal's palace built between 1327 and 1329 and developed by Cardinal Annibal Ceccano, who gave it its name.
The synagogue of the carrière, built in the late 1840s: square outside, round inside, with a ring of white columns carrying a gallery.
The collegiate church facing its forecourt of 1486, its glory the two walnut doors, four metres high.
The Dyers' Street along the canal of the Sorgue, where dyers, printers, tanners and silk workers used the water to wash, rinse and dye cloth.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 14 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 14 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Avignon — the Old Town Beyond the Palace, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
14 narration points, including Church of Saint-Agricol, Palais du Roure, Musée Calvet, Musée lapidaire and Livrée Ceccano. That is about 12 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 14 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.