Amsterdam Highlights Audio Tour: Masterpieces and Historic Treasures

Explore Amsterdam at your own pace

Beneath the polished canals of Amsterdam lies a city built on religious rebellion, illicit art, and gold stained with scandal.

This self-guided audio tour peels back the layers of history, leading you far beyond the standard tourist path. You will navigate the corridors of the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum while uncovering the secrets hidden within the walls of Our Lord in the Attic.

Why did a devout congregation choose to hide an entire cathedral inside a merchant home? What desperate secret forced a painter to slice away his own past? How did a singular tulip bulb once topple the most powerful economy on earth?

Photo: Boudewijn Boer, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 50 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 5.3 km (3.3 miles)
• Stops: 15 landmarks, including Berlage Exchange, Museum Our Lord in the Attic, Old Church (Amsterdam)
• Audio: up to 38 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Berlage Exchange

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Buying for a group? Choose one ticket per person: you get one code that works on every phone in your group.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Gaurav Jain, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• Berlage Exchange
• Museum Our Lord in the Attic
• Old Church (Amsterdam)
• De Wallen
• Rembrandt House Museum
• National Monument on the Dam
• New Church (Amsterdam)
• Palace on the Dam
• Begijnhof, Amsterdam
• Mint Tower
• Tuschinski Royal Theatre
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Van Gogh Museum
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• Royal Concertgebouw

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Gaurav Jain, Boudewijn Boer, redcharlie, Adrien Olichon, Clarisa Ravasotti (Unsplash).