Basel’s Hidden Treasures: Affordable Self-Guided Walking Tour

Discover Basel’s hidden treasures on an affordable self-guided walking tour. Explore at your own pace, learn about the city’s history, and enjoy the freedom to start and finish whenever you want.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Marktplatz - The tour starts on Basel’s Marktplatz. You’ll hear about how VoiceMap works and be introduced to the tour’s creator, the themes of the tour and the city itself before you start walking.
What's Included
  • VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • Lifetime access to this self-guided tour in English
What's Not Included
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
  • Smarphone and headphones
  • Food and drinks
  • Transportation
Additional Information

Are you in the hunt for an independent expedition through Basel’s 180 fountains, without the restriction of a guided tour? Embark on a self-paced journey with our cost-friendly walking tour.
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Location
Marktplatz
Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Piethemeryck
Aug 28, 2025
On city exploration with an off-line guide, along history and beautiful and fun highlights. - A handy audio guide that will immerse us directly in the streets, beautiful buildings, history and current events of the city upon arrival in Basel. Fine and clear info. The tour is very intuitive, and as announced, you can always leave the course, you are nicely made aware that you deviate, and so (later) can consult the plan to continue. It is also useful that you can pre-install the tour and use everything off-line (without internet costs) during the tour. Tip to creators to make it even better: multiple languages (NL, FR, .; ) provided;-) .
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I471vedianek
Jul 30, 2025
Perfect tour for us - We really enjoyed seeing the highlights of Basel on our own at our pace. It included enough history to appreciate what we were seeing, but not too much to overwhelm us.
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Cynthia_k
Jul 9, 2025
Don’t miss this gem! - This was an amazing tour! We got to take our time, see things we would have just walked by, and learned the history of Basel. Well worth the $$!
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Thomas_h
Jun 21, 2025
Good alternative to tip based tours - Liked the modern method of audio directing us to the next stop on the walk. Affordable walking tour that was informative!
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Pat
May 22, 2025
Great tour! - Excellent tour! Great directions and interesting information. Very comfortable doing this solo. I highly recommend.
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Benjamin_a
May 21, 2025
The app is very well done... - The app is very well done and it's great that you can listen at faster than 1X speed and take your own time and Pace about going from point to point or even take a break and do a detour if you want
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Angelach9366ok
May 8, 2025
Basel Switzerland - This was our highlight in Basel Switzerland where all the signs and even tours were mostly in German. We were able to have a guide in English and go at our own pace - very educational.
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Juliebz7480fp
Feb 15, 2025
Great tour for people in town on Business - I had a couple of free hours while in town for business, so I downloaded this tour. It was great to learn about the history of Basel. The walk was easy to follow and I saw things and learned things I would have never gotten on my own. Even on a cold rainy day, I enjoyed the tour.
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Michael_m
Aug 17, 2025
A little prep will go a long way - It took me a bit to figure out how to navigate the app, but once I mastered that, it was great. Well paced, informative and interesting, it gave me a great feeling for Basel and its history. For the price, you can’t beat it. I would suggest listening to at least the first part to figure out how it is set up prior to just plunging into the tour.
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Lisa_l
Jun 27, 2025
Very informative, good... - Very informative, good intro to Basel. We had a hot day, if you do, go in the early morning or later in the day.
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From $12
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).