Copenhagen Audio Tour: Historic Hearts

Explore Copenhagen at your own pace

Beneath the polished facade of Copenhagen lies a graveyard of fractured crowns and whispered conspiracies. Cobblestones here act as silent witnesses to centuries of royal paranoia and bloody political uprisings that shaped the modern world.

Unlock these buried secrets with a self-guided audio tour designed to lead you far beyond the standard tourist path. Discover the hidden stories of the Botanical Garden and the dark corridors of Rosenborg Castle that most travelers ignore.

Why did a single address at Skindergade 8 trigger a midnight panic that silenced the city for a decade? What sinister ritual hides behind the manicured hedges of the king's private park? And why was a high-ranking official caught burning evidence in the rain on a quiet Tuesday in 1848?

Photo: Kristijan Arsov, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
• Stops: 14 landmarks, including University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden, Østervold Observatory, Natural History Museum of Denmark
• Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
• Starts at: University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden

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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: Diego Gennaro, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden
• Østervold Observatory
• Natural History Museum of Denmark
• Rosenborg Castle
• Life Guard Barracks
• Rosenborg Castle Gardens
• The Hercules Pavilion
• The David Collection
• St. Clare's Priory, Copenhagen
• Skindergade 8
• Round Tower
• Copenhagen Synagogue
• Borchs Kollegium
• Christus

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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: Kristijan Arsov, Diego Gennaro, Evan Lee, Febiyan, Michael Jerrard (Unsplash); AudaTours.