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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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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Reneerejean
Oct 14, 2024
Made it fun! - The audioguide was very informative and made our visit worthwhile. Otherwise it would have felt a bit like a tourist trap. It was fun to see the gps working to figure out where we were and moving to the next explanation. Well worth the cost.
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Emyrt2022
Sep 29, 2024
Take your time & relax - This is a no fuss, excellent informative way of taking your time around the castle walls, with the flexibility of being able to stop/rest at any time, then carrying on at your own pace. I thoroughly recommend.
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Mariaisabelmilidi
Sep 20, 2024
Authentic village - Beautiful experience, a very nice medieval village, full of shops and restaurants The beautiful castle Highly recommended
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Romk51
Sep 18, 2024
To do absolutely - Excellent visit to the castle and the ramparts of Carcassonne. Self-Tour without Audio Guide. Very well indicated, atypical course of the castle and well explained. Various shop at the end of which our purchases contribute to the heritage as well as to the maintenance of the places
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Y9915trbobl
Oct 6, 2024
Great seld-guided tour, giving you a lot of indepence - Good, informative and flexible method to take a guided tour. The application used for the self-guided tour worked really well, even with the GPS location of my phone being off a few times due to the nature of the terrain. If you want to be independent of a local tour operator, are not too attached to connecting with other people visiting the cité and prefer to be able to dodge some crowds, this is really a great way to explore Carcassonne. The narrator knows his stuff and has a good variety of interesting background stories, with an occasional humoristic touch. Just short of 5 stars only because I think it's a little bit too expensive. Although honestly, I didn't look up prices for locally guided tours. Don't forget to bring you own headphones!
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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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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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