Everyone knows this photo. No one remembers the rooftop.
This walking tour, "From Imperialism to Modernism: The Architecture of Central Saigon," passes right by the building where it was taken. Swipe to hear the full story. π§
π https://t.co/SyKtwaw4Sx
βββββ "We feel like we've seen the 'real' Barcelona."
Local storytellers know which streets the guidebooks skip and which ones they overrate. With VoiceMap, you get their voices in your ear as you walk through the city β and avoid the crowds but none of the best sights. π§
A murder in a Tenerife nightclub inspired one of Spain's biggest pop hits. This new VoiceMap walking tour peels back the darker layers hiding behind Santa Cruz de Tenerife's elegant squares.
π https://t.co/ODQAs9QDHH
#Tenerife#SantaCruzDeTenerife#TrueCrime#AudioTour
Marseille rarely tells the whole story at first glance.
@rjseaward, a local, walks you through Vieux Port and Le Panier: hotels that arenβt what they seem, and a fishing village turned crime hotspot turned atmospheric gem.
https://t.co/9in5M98xiY #Marseille#AudioTour
This club still serves spirits.
@Saint_Facetious's Rustaveli Avenue tour walks right past Cafe Gallery on Tbilisi's main street. Swipe to find out which spirits it used to serve. π§
π https://t.co/mkszdvbUsb
#Tbilisi#HiddenHistory#AudioTour#VoiceMap
The Apostle Paul spent about 18 months in Corinth, and the platform where he stood before a Roman proconsul is still there. Dr David Bosworth's new VoiceMap tour follows Paul through Ancient Corinth, linking it to his letters to the church he founded.
π https://t.co/FMaJ6xnUQB
Bodies dug up in the dead of night. A vengeful hag who still haunts Pine Street.
Lifelong Philadelphian @libertyghostwalk shares Society Hillβs darkest legends on his VoiceMap Liberty Ghost tour. Save it for Halloween π§
π https://t.co/PBIjZNONAi
#Philadelphia#Halloween
Room 336 at the Peninsula Hotel changed Hong Kong's history.
@hellojapantours' Framing Hong Kong walking tour points out the iconic hotel from across Victoria Harbour. Swipe to find out how this regular room shaped the city's story. π§
π https://t.co/OrUFxjH30N
βββββ "It tells you when you're off the route."
Montmartre last year, Zurich this time. This traveller came back for a second VoiceMap tour, and says it's one to recommend, especially for the price.
Download the app using the link in bio.
#TravelYourWay#SelfGuidedTour
Denzil Walton's VoiceMap tour of Tervuren Park starts on the village market square. You'll walk beside the lake Leopold built for the Brussels International Exhibition, to the Africa Museum, built as a monument to Belgian colonialism.
π https://t.co/SiKQBhlreV
#TervurenWalk
How can a building be βan insult to the Emperorβ? In Vienna, plain walls and no window frames once caused outrage.
@offbeatbudapest shows how two District 1 landmarks, built decades apart, scandalised the city.
π§ https://t.co/j8Tg9U3xYf
#Vienna#AdolfLoos
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was abandoned after only three years of operation. Newport's residents believe itβs haunted. @NarrativeRoads' new VoiceMap driving tour follows the Oregon coast from Newport to Lincoln City.
π https://t.co/G6ejq0Sz2B
Imagine waking up to find British soldiers had taken your city overnight. It happened in Buenos Aires.
@walkbsasβs San Telmo tour tells how locals fought back from rooftops, and shows you the cannonball marks still on the Basilica.
https://t.co/iIWN4Df5Nx
#BuenosAires
No memorial marks what happened in this alley.
This walking tour of Chicago's Loop and Theater District passes right by the alley and reveals the deadly tragedy that led to 600 deaths.
Swipe to find out the full story. π§
π https://t.co/Oep2z95Hut
βββββ "It was so much nicer than being in a big group, especially in the narrow streets."
In Toledo's narrow streets, this reviewer could walk quietly, stop whenever they wanted, and take the city at their own pace. And they still felt like a local was showing them around.
In 2022, Russian vehicles rolled towards Kyiv expecting to take the city within days. Today their wrecked vehicles stand in St Michael's Square, covered in handwritten messages from passersby. Save this for your Kyiv trip.
π https://t.co/Z0kLThavLy
One particularly active VoiceMapper has spent the equivalent of 10 days taking tours across 77 destinations and 20 countries.
Version 16 of the app, which weβve just released, was built with VoiceMappers like her in mind.
#VoiceMap#AudioTour#SelfGuidedTravel#TravelApp
Old Burial Hill in Marblehead holds more bodies than headstones. Lovecraft based a graveyard on it, and Disney filmed Hocus Pocus here.
Historian Erik Smith (@salemvoicetours) walks you through both stories. Save it for Halloween.
https://t.co/eu5ccj8emd
#Halloween#Marblehead
This statue was at the centre of Rome's gossip. Today, nobody recalls why it's even there.
@contexttravel's Hidden Gems of Ancient Rome tour points it out and explains how it and the five other statues named Romeβs βTalking Statuesβ came to be.
π https://t.co/lklkMfmGNn
Girona says a swarm of flies drove off a French army in the 13th century. The truth was probably mosquitoes.
Girona-born guide Miquel Roger narrates VoiceMap's new walking tour of the Old Town.
π https://t.co/5ySPcUevu4
#GironaWalk#AudioTour#VoiceMap#Catalonia