Lausanne Self Guided Walking Tour of Rebel and Rockstar

Lausanne, Switzerland
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Duration2h - 4h
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LanguagesGerman, Russian, Portuguese, English, Italian, Polish, French, Dutch, Spanish
Private tourOnly your group will participate

Overview

One of the most photographed musicians alive once married in near-total secrecy inside a modest town hall — two witnesses, one interpreter, a wedding the press didn't find out about for ten days. That's Lausanne. It is also the lakeside town of a few hundred thousand people that once decided the borders of modern Turkey.
This self-guided walking tour and audio tour of Lausanne, narrated through the Tourific app, leads you past 20+ stops including a fountain where four rulers kneel before blindfolded Justice and a cathedral tower where a watchman still calls the hours into the dark, unbroken for six hundred years.
Go at your own pace, no fixed start time, resume right where you stopped. Over 25,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours, backed by a full refund guarantee.
For anyone who assumed Lausanne was just a pretty lake town, get ready to be proven wrong.

What's included

  • 1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
  • Audio and written guide included
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund
  • Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
  • Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
  • Any physical devices or headphones
  • Human tour guide at location

What to expect

  1. Place de la Palud
    10m
    Spot the four rulers bowing to Justice on a fountain that isn't quite what it seems.
  2. 6m
    Step into the modest hall where a global rock icon married in near-total secrecy.
  3. 8m
    Cross a bridge over a river you'll never see, built by a man who never crossed it.
  4. Eglise Reformee Saint-Francois
    8m
    Search the cobblestones for fifty-two golden stars written in a six-year-old's hand.
  5. Lausanne
    10m
    Trace the decade a legendary designer spent hiding in plain sight behind this facade.
  6. Statue de Guillaume Tell
    7m
    Encounter the legendary marksman whose apple-shot tale may never have happened.
  7. Casino de Montbenon
    10m
    Notice the modest hall that once quietly ran the entire Olympic movement.
  8. Tour de l'Ale
    7m
    Look up at the lone tower nearly demolished, and its deliberately fake twin across town.
  9. Espace Arlaud
    Pass by
    Piece together the gallery with no permanent collection and the raw art it inspired.
  10. Palais de Rumine
    15m
    Decode the treaty signed here that redrew a nation's borders, and the murder that followed.
  11. Chateau Saint-Maire
    10m
    Follow the doomed rebel whose trusted allies betrayed him behind these walls.
  12. 8m
    Pass beneath the street where a paralysis-defying breakthrough and an everyday invention both began.
  13. 15m
    Stand where a nightly cry has rung out unbroken for over six hundred years.
  14. Pass by
    Compare today's city to a miniature Lausanne frozen centuries in the past.
  15. Escaliers du Marche
    6m
    Count the covered steps built wide enough for baskets to pass without stopping.
  16. 8m
    Uncover the bridge that funded itself, and the poet a storm once stranded nearby.
  17. Parc de Mon Repos
    10m
    Step into the garden where a restless philosopher staged his own plays for local society.

Meeting and pickup

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Additional information

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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