Carcassonne's Medieval Walls: Self-Guided Walking Tour with Historian James McDonald

Discover the medieval walls of Carcassonne on a self-guided walking tour with historian James McDonald. Learn about the city’s defense strategies and explore at your own pace.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • La Cité Médiévale - This self-guided audio tour takes place around the medieval city of Carcassonne.
  • Buste De Dame Carcas - On this tour, you’ll see the Buste de Dame Carcas (a sculpture of Lady Carcas) and tell you the story of how she saved the city from Charlemagne.
  • Porte Narbonnaise - As you enter the city through Porte Narbonnaise…
What's Included
  • Lifetime access to tour in English
  • VoiceMap app for Android & iOS
  • Offline audio, maps & geodata access
What's Not Included
  • Smartphone and headphones
  • Transportation
  • Food and drink
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
Additional Information

Are you looking for a way to see Medieval Carcassonne without joining a tour group? This three-hour tour, narrated by historian, James McDonald takes you beyond the walls and back in time. Explore at your own pace with this affordable self-guided walking tour.
• Find out how to identify the many “killing zones” in which enemies risked being trapped while…

Location
Buste de Dame Carcas
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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Jeremy_h
Sep 19, 2025
Get the full history of Carcassonne - Great tour, loads of info and keeps you away from the masses. Takes about 3 hours, great app with geolocation so it works at your pace.
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Traveler05985337130
Aug 14, 2025
A wonderful village! - This is a historic, special place and is a must see in France! A beautiful village with wonderful restaurants and shops and of course a true piece of history.
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Lee_j
Jul 26, 2025
Cité - It was amazing, great commentary, very informative and the information about the site was accurate. As the commentator informed us at the beginning certain parts of the site maybe closed due to restoration and this was true on the day of our visit but it was easy to skip to the next chapter and pick it back up. Overall 10/10.
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Voyager55169744673
Feb 2, 2025
Medieval City - Excellent!! A trip back in time!!! I advise you 👍 Restoring nice, a Magnificent view of the Pyrenees in snow
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Isusgt
Dec 5, 2024
Medieval castle of ancient Occitania, if you know who the Cathars of medieval were, this is your place. - If you want to see the best restoration work of a medieval lock by the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Carcassonne is your place
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C2334bbivanam
Nov 1, 2024
Carcassonne is charming, exciting! - Carcassonne is an amazing tour, the Tour is Wonderful, the Tour must be. All visitors will be completely in love with its beautiful medieval architecture!
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791patriceb
Jun 9, 2025
Promenade - To do once in a lifetime is a beautiful place you still have to have good health for walks meals and drinks correct compared to 12 euros for parking c is too much
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157jmg
Feb 22, 2025
Nice visit - A nice visit however without much interest. An empty and unwarm castle in short not extraordinary! Be careful the ramparts have quite high steps.
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Vivienne
Oct 20, 2025
A waste of money. Don't even consider it. - Atrocious and a total waste of money. The voice tour took nearly 30 minutes to start so we began the tour without it only to have to go back to the beginning again so that the spoken information could co ordinate with our position. And THEN it wouldn't sync with our location at all! Finally turned the bloody thing off as it was ruining the experience. And yes, location WAS on.
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Drsukie
Mar 10, 2025
Don't Waste Your Money - This was a total waste of our money. We could never get it to sync with the actual stops, me on an Android and my travel companion on his iPhone. We gave up after about 15 minutes of intense frustration. Neither of us is tech-illiterate.
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From $25
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).