Ascona’s historic centre

Welcome to Ascona! Ascona is refined, picturesque, elegant and romantic. The historic centre’s pedestrian alleys are swarmed with boutiques, restaurants, art galleries and antique stores. The lakeside promenade, recalling a fishermen’s villa…

NEW YORK CITY Uptown Art and Culture

This walk takes us northwards from 50th Street and to five of New York’s great cultural institutions – the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History. We start in St Patrick’s…

NEW YORK CITY Wall St to Washington Square

This tour covers the financial district of southern Manhattan and such iconic locations as the New York Stock Exchange and its Charging Bull statue. We move on through the memorials to the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001 – …

NEW YORK CITY Midtown

Midtown New York is where all the world famous buildings are – the Empire State, the fabulous Art Deco Chrysler, Grand Central station and the United Nations headquarters.The district moves on northwards along Broadway through Times Square and up …

How Dutch is New York? – The New Amsterdam Tour

Welcome to our audio tour of Lower Manhattan. Dutch Heritage World Tours will lead you through the streets of the area of New York City which in the 17th century was called New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam wasn’t the first Dutch trading post, but woul…

Urbirun New York – Brooklyn Classic

Distance: 11.6km/6.8mi (*10km/6.2mi)Elevation: low (bridges)Direction: depending on where you start : north circle (Manhattan), clockwise / south circle (Brooklyn) counterclockwiseParks/Pedestrian: 4.8km (ca 44%)Urban constraints: New-Yorker… Sugg…

New York – the Capital of Fame

New York is the heart of America; when European architects started to build structures taller than a church’s spire, skyscrapers were already present here. New York attracts talented dreamers and ambitious adventurers who want to bite a piece of t…

Urbirun New York – Hudson River & Highline

Distance: 9km/5.6mi to the end of the highline (*12.2km/7.6mi to Times Square, map)Elevation: flatDirection: linear, from south to northParks/Pedestrian: 7km (ca 75%) (long route, ca 60%)Urban constraints: low along the short route. New-yorker along the…

Urbirun New York – East River iconic Bridges

Distance:  11km/6.85mi (*16.5km/10.25mi or 19.6km/12.2mi)Elevation: flatDirection: linear, from north to southUrban constraints: medium, and new-yorker Start 1: Lexington ave/60th st (19.6km) –Start 2: Queensboro Plaza (16.5km) –Start 3…

Cornell Tech

Welcome to Cornell Tech, a new kind of urban campus. Opened in Fall 2017, the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City is at once a refuge in the wild and a place for discovery, alive with debate, both intellectually and physically. The …

Our Dublin!

Follow a tour of our student trip throughout Dublin! In these audios you’ll find the best moments of our winter trip to Dublin. “Dublin City, does it need an introduction? I mean, everybody knows a bit about the capital of Ireland. But what …

Free Dublin audio tour from MP3 City Guides

This audio guide offers you all you need to know about four of Dublin’s most interesting sites. To get many more and found out more about Dublin check out the premium version.

Urbirun Dublin – Highlights

Distance: 11.5km / 7.15mi (*8.1km/5.0mi)Elevation: flatRotation: clockwiseUrban constraints: lowSuggested start: The Spire on O’Connell Street / as any urbirun route, you can start wherever you want. Watch for the route rotation direction. Public …

Green Walkabout with Transition

Take this walking tour to get to know the place, stretch your legs and get great tips on how to benefit from Transition University of St Andrews projects during your time here. Transition University of St Andrews is a diverse network of people with a co…

Free Edinburgh audio tour from MP3 City Guides

This audio guide offers you all you need to know about four of Edinburgh’s most interesting sites. To get many more and found out more about Edinburgh check out the premium version.

Budapest – Inner City Pest walk with Tim Richards

Budapest is a city that’s alive and bursting with energy again after the long, enforced slumber of the Communist years. Since the Iron Curtain finally rusted away Budapest has been moving up through the gears – well it does have a Formula One Grand …

Budapest – out along Andrassy Avenue

Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is one of the most rewarding and inexpensive cities in Europe. It positively delights in its location on the banks of the wide River Danube. There are historic parts high above Buda – and a wealth of Art Nouveau o…

Budapest – history walk of Buda with Tim Richards

Budapest is one of the most attractive and interesting capital cities in Europe. It makes great use of its location on the Danube as it flows through Hungary. It has the impressive castle district high on a hill which is the historic heart of the city. …

Budapest in 1 day

Budapest is a city on the Danube, the capital of Hungary. In 1873, the town of Pest (Hungarian Pest), which lay on the eastern side of the Danube, Buda (Latin Buda) and Obud (Hungarian. Obuda, both on the western side of the river), was merged into a si…

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