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A self-guided audio walking tour of Honfleur's old port. It begins at the church of Saint-Léonard, with its Flamboyant Gothic portal, and the Salt Stores of 1670, built partly of stone from the demolished town walls to hold salt for the herring and cod fisheries. Along Rue de la Ville it tells the Enclos, the fortified town held by the English for some three decades in the Hundred Years' War, then visits the Ethnography Museum and old prison and the former church of Saint-Étienne, now the Maritime Museum. At the Vieux Bassin, dug between 1684 and 1690, it tells the harbour's trade, including the town's role as one of France's principal slave-trading ports, and at the Lieutenance the voyages that left from here, among them Champlain's in 1608 that founded Quebec. It goes on past Place Hamelin and Erik Satie's birthplace to the Musée Eugène Boudin, the detached wooden bell tower and twin-naved timber church of Sainte-Catherine, and Quai Sainte-Catherine, with an optional climb to the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Honfleur's cruise quay on the Seine is about a kilometre and a half from the old harbour.
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 · 60 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 8 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-Léonard, The Salt Stores, Rue de la Ville and the Enclos, Ethnography Museum and the Old Prison, Saint-Étienne Church and the Maritime Museum.
Vieux Bassin, Lieutenance, Place Hamelin, Erik Satie's Birthplace and the Maisons Satie.
Musée Eugène Boudin, Sainte-Catherine Bell Tower, Church of Sainte-Catherine, Quai Sainte-Catherine, Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Two stone warehouses of 1670 that held salt for the cod and herring fleets, under a chestnut roof frame like an upturned hull.
The harbour basin dug between 1684 and 1690 and lined with tall slate-clad houses, the centre of Honfleur's trade, slaving included.
Once a gate of the fourteenth-century walls, at the harbour mouth from which Champlain sailed in 1608 to found Quebec.
The town museum in a former convent chapel, telling the painters who met at the Saint-Siméon inn, from Isabey to Monet.
A church of 1468 to 1496 built by the town's marine carpenters, with two naves whose wooden vaults recall overturned hulls.
The mariners' pilgrimage chapel of 1600 to 1615 above the Seine, hung with model ships and paintings of storms and rescues.
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 Honfleur — the Old Harbour and the Painters' Town, 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 Lieutenance, Church of Saint-Léonard, The Salt Stores, Rue de la Ville and the Enclos and Ethnography Museum and the Old Prison. That is about 17 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.