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A self-guided audio walk from the Königstor up through Nuremberg's old town to the Kaiserburg, following the city's Christmas customs and the history underneath them. It starts at the Handwerkerhof, a craft courtyard built in 1971, with the story of Nuremberg's Lebkuchen, whose bakers are documented by 1395; the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, which holds the small box of 1678 that is the oldest written record of the Christkindlesmarkt; the Mauthalle; and St Lorenz with Veit Stoss's Angelic Salutation. Across the Pegnitz it reaches the Hauptmarkt, laid out in 1349 on the ground of the destroyed Jewish quarter, where each Advent the Christkind opens the market from the gallery of the Frauenkirche, and the Schöner Brunnen with its brass ring. Then the Old Town Hall, St Sebald, the Toy Museum, the Weinstadel and the executioner's bridge, Albrecht Dürer's house and the castle where the children's lantern procession ends. The markets run in Advent; the streets, churches and their stories are there all year.
15 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 · 267 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 200 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.
The Königstor and the Handwerkerhof, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, The Mauthalle, St Lorenz.
The Heilig-Geist-Spital and the Hans-Sachs-Platz, Fleischbrücke, Hauptmarkt, Frauenkirche, Schöner Brunnen.
The Old Town Hall and the Rathausplatz, St Sebald, The Toy Museum, The Weinstadel and the Henkersteg, Albrecht Dürer's House and the Tiergärtnertor, The Kaiserburg.
Home of the Behaim Globe of 1492 and of the small box that carries the oldest written mention of the Christmas market, dated 1678.
A Gothic church with Veit Stoss's Angelic Salutation in the choir and Adam Kraft's Sacrament House, with the sculptor himself kneeling at its foot.
The square of the Christkindlesmarkt, laid out in 1349 on the ground of the Jewish quarter destroyed in that year's pogrom.
The church on the site of the synagogue, with the noon Männleinlaufen clock and the gallery from which the Christkind opens the market.
The nineteen-metre Gothic fountain on the market square, and the seamless brass ring in its grille said to bring luck.
The imperial castle on the sandstone rock, where each Advent the children's lantern procession ends with a nativity play.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 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. 15 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 Nuremberg — the Christkindlesmarkt, Lebkuchen and the Imperial City, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including The Königstor and the Handwerkerhof, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, The Mauthalle, St Lorenz and The Heilig-Geist-Spital and the Hans-Sachs-Platz. That is about 30 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 ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 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.