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A self-guided audio walking tour up through the village of Èze, on its rock above the coast between Nice and Monaco, to the garden at its summit; Villefranche-sur-Mer has its own tour. It starts at the Poterne, the fortified double gate made when Èze passed with Nice to the house of Savoy in 1388, with the story of the rock from the settlement of around 200 BC to the fortress the lords of Èze built in the 12th century. It climbs the narrow stepped lanes, made for donkeys carrying water, stone and mandarins, to the Chapel of the White Penitents of 1306, the oldest building in the village, and Château Eza, the villa Prince William of Sweden made from several old houses after 1931. It visits the church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, built from 1764, and the Jardin exotique made after the Second World War inside the ruins of the fortress, 429 metres above the sea, with Jean-Philippe Richard's Earth Goddesses among the plants, and the castle ruins at the summit. It ends at the head of the old mule track to the sea that Friedrich Nietzsche walked in 1883 and 1884.
9 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 (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 6 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.
Main Gate and Potern, Rue Principale and the Stepped Lanes, Chapel of the White Penitents.
Château Eza, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Exotic Garden of Èze.
Earth Goddess Sculptures, Castle of Èze, Nietzsche Path.
The fortified way into the village, made a double gate with towers, guardrooms and a drawbridge after Èze passed to Savoy in 1388.
Narrow stepped lanes paved with stone and pebble mosaics, made for donkeys carrying water, stone and mandarins up the hill.
The chapel of 1306, the oldest building in Èze, meeting place of a brotherhood of lay people.
The church Antonio Spinelli designed for Duke Charles-Emmanuel III of Savoy, built from 1764 and consecrated in the 1770s.
The garden made after the Second World War inside the ruins of the fortress, 429 metres above the sea, its soil first carried up by hand.
The old mule track down to Èze-sur-Mer, walked by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1883 and 1884.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 9 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. 9 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 Èze — the Perched Village, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
9 narration points, including Main Gate and Potern, Rue Principale and the Stepped Lanes, Chapel of the White Penitents, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption and Exotic Garden of Èze. That is about 8 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. 9 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.