About Heritage Walking

Heritage Walking is a GPS-guided walking service that keeps the choice of independent travel while helping you with the route and the stories. Travelling on your own means choosing the places you want at your own pace — but every change of plan means deciding the remaining places and their order again, and at a historic site you often search once more for why it matters. A guided tour brings a prepared route and explanations, but fixed places, times and pace. Heritage Walking connects the best of both: before you go, preview the route and change it to fit your day; on site, walk the same route and hear the story of each place. It runs in the browser — no app, no account.

What you can do

145 walking routes in Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Athens and many more cities across 36 countries, each with its estimated time, distance, stops and a narration per place. Preview before the trip — map, street view, stops and narration. Fit it to your day — keep only the stops you want and change the order. GPS audio on site — continue the same route on your phone; GPS recognises each stop as you arrive and plays that place’s story, so you look at the real place instead of the screen. No app, no account — the curated routes are currently free to use.

Why we built it

Heritage Walking began with a frustration felt on an actual independent trip: choosing freely was wonderful, but whenever the schedule shifted we had to judge the remaining places again, and famous sites without their stories became scenery we walked past. On the next trip we tried day guided tours — the route was taken care of and every place had its story, and the same places stayed in memory far longer — but we had to keep to a fixed time and pace. So we asked: could we keep the flexibility of independent travel and still borrow the convenience of a guided tour’s route and stories, as much as we need? Heritage Walking started from that question.

How the routes are made

Curated routes are drafted from published sources; before they go live we check what can be checked — place names, coordinates, the order of stops and the narration. The aim is to convey why a place matters, its stories and how it connects to the places around it, not just what a building is. Not every route has been walk-tested on site; on-site usability and walking paths are something we keep checking and improving.

How to use it

1. Preview the route — choose a destination and look over the map, distance, stops and narration. 2. Fit it to your day — pick the places you want and change the order. 3. Open the same route at the destination on your phone. 4. Walk and hear the stories — GPS recognises each stop and plays its narration.

The kind of trip we want to make

Understanding and remembering the place in front of you a little better matters more than visiting more places. Without reducing the choice of independent travel, Heritage Walking helps travellers focus on the real place and its story rather than wearing themselves out finding the way and the information. Questions or suggestions: contact us.