Walk the only walled city north of Mexico. Champlain built his Habitation in 1608 on the shore at Place-Royale, where the Lower Town still stands on the colony's original street plan; above it the Upper Town holds the seminary, the Ursuline monastery and the basilica that has been rebuilt after every fire and every siege. The ramparts a visitor walks today are largely British works finished after 1763 on French foundations, and they end at the Plains of Abraham, where a battle lasting under half an hour in 1759 killed both commanders and decided the fate of New France.
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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 (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 basilica, the seminary and the Ursuline monastery, Place d'Armes and the Château Frontenac on the cliff above the river.
The gates, the powder magazine and the star fort on Cap Diamant — a French line of defence finished by the British and still garrisoned today.
Where Champlain landed in 1608 and the colony actually began: Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, the Petit-Champlain and the wharves below the cliff.
The most photographed hotel in the world, and not a castle — a Canadian Pacific railway hotel by the American architect Bruce Price, built to sell the railway as much as the view.
The square where Champlain raised the Habitation, and the oldest stone church in Canada still standing on its original walls.
The star fort on Cap Diamant, begun by the British on French works and still home to the Royal 22e Régiment.
The boardwalk above the river, laid over the buried ruins of the Château Saint-Louis where the governors of New France actually lived.
Seat of the first Roman Catholic diocese in North America north of Mexico, burned and rebuilt after fire and after the bombardment of 1759.
The battlefield above the cliffs where Wolfe and Montcalm were both killed and New France effectively ended, now a park in the middle of the city.
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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 — history, architecture, and the stories behind them. 62 narration points across the Upper Town, the Lower Town and the fortifications, in English and Québec French.
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.
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Every significant point inside the walls and the ground just beyond them. The great monuments get deep dives; the gates, chapels and small museums get focused stories.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
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.
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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 ~88 minutes total, but you walk at your own pace. 62 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.