Stuttgart Audio Tour: Legends, Love, and Life in the Rathaus Quarter

Explore Stuttgart at your own pace

A prince's secret passage runs beneath your feet while the spires of the Old Castle cast thousand-year shadows on Rathaus Square. Stuttgart's heart beats with royal intrigue, buried rebellions, and silent mysteries waiting to be uncovered. This self-guided audio tour takes you through twisting lanes and monumental halls, letting you discover the overlooked legends behind celebrated landmarks and hidden corners alike.

What ancient betrayal echoes through the stones of the Collegiate Church? As the State Museum Württemberg blazes with royal treasure, whose scandalous downfall changed an entire dynasty? And why does a simple metal marker outside the Old Castle hint at a forgotten uprising?

Wander from soaring gothic arches to glittering museum relics and uncover Stuttgart's tangled past with every step. This journey reveals secret struggles and awe-inspiring stories asleep in the city's soul.

Photo: Kai Pilger, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 2.1 km (1.3 miles)
• Stops: 16 landmarks, including Monument to conjugal tenderness and love of the people, Karlsplatz, Old Orphanage
• Audio: up to 40 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Monument to conjugal tenderness and love of the people

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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: Mathias Konrath, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• Monument to conjugal tenderness and love of the people
• Karlsplatz
• Old Orphanage
• Stuttgart Writers' House
• Market Hall Stuttgart
• Schillerplatz
• Prinzenbau
• Hof-Apotheke
• State Museum Württemberg
• Old Castle Stuttgart
• Mercury Column
• Collegiate Church
• Market Square
• Stuttgart City Hall
• St. Leonhard's Church
• Schocken department store

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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: Kai Pilger, Mathias Konrath, Roman Kraft, Rachel Davis, Sinan Erg (Unsplash); AudaTours.