Every Stop Is a Real Place

Each stop is geocoded to an actual location and the walking route between them comes from live routing data. That means the distance and the walking time you see are measured, not estimated by someone who never walked it.

Free to Read, Free to Walk

There is nothing to book and nothing to pay. Open the itinerary, start where you like, stop for lunch halfway through, skip the bit that does not interest you. It is your afternoon.

Go at Your Own Pace

The single biggest complaint about guided tours is the pace. Too fast at the part you cared about, too slow at the part you did not. Self-guided means you set it, and you can sit down for twenty minutes without holding anyone up.

Do It With Company If You Want

A self-guided tour is a solo activity by default, and that is the one thing we wanted to fix. Schedule any route as an open walk in the app and other people can join you on it. Same route, same stops, someone to talk to.

Works Offline Once You Have Read It

The itinerary is a normal page, so it loads on hotel wifi before you leave and stays readable when you are wandering a back street with no signal and no roaming data.

Key Takeaways

  • Self-guided walking tours are free itineraries you follow yourself, with no guide and no booking.
  • Every route lists its stops in order with a measured walking distance and time between them.
  • Routes are built from live routing data, so the distances reflect streets rather than straight lines.
  • Any self-guided route can be scheduled as an open walk in the Walk With Me app so other people can join.
  • Walk With Me lists self-guided tours for Rome, Paris, London and Barcelona, and adds new cities regularly.

What is a Self-guided walking tour?

A walking route through a city that you follow yourself, using a map and an ordered list of stops, rather than paying a guide to lead you. You choose the start time, the pace, and who comes along.

Self-guided tours, city by city

Each guide below is a complete itinerary: where to start, what you are looking at, how far it is to the next stop, and roughly how long the whole thing takes.

Athens Acropolis and Plaka Walk

A self-guided Athens walking tour through the old lanes of Plaka and Anafiotika, around the ancient Agora, and up to the Acropolis itself. Read the full guide

Barcelona Gothic Quarter Walking Tour

A self-guided barcelona walking tour from Placa de Catalunya down the Ramblas into the Gothic Quarter and El Born to Santa Maria del Mar. Read the full guide

Bruges Old Town Walking Tour

A self-guided bruges walking tour from the Markt and its belfry through the squares and along the canals to the Beguinage and the Lake of Love. Read the full guide

Frequently Asked Questions

What Walkers Are Saying

Real reviews from walkers — on the app stores and right here on the web.

5.0 on Google Play

Looking forward to finding some local walks in my city, cool idea.

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Android user

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I really like the idea. Seems like I'm the first walker in my city, but the concept is exactly what I wanted.

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Bucharest

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This app helped me leave the house and touch some grass, for real for real.

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