The Elegant Luxembourg Garden: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

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Highlights

  • Saunter around Paris' prettiest park like a local while discoving its secrets and history

  • Hear from producer Gary Kraut who authored five travel guides to Paris and France and operates the award-winning travel e-magazine France Revisited

  • Do it all in an hour or linger at stops along the way with complete control over when you start and finish

  • Get unlimited use before your booking date and after it

  • Use the virtual tour option at home

Summary

Bask in 62 acres of historical and natural glory at this most Parisian park on a self-guided walking tour. Experience the magic of GPS-playback as you parade around the Left Bank's most elegant park.

Tour info

Duration
1 hour - 1 hour 30 minutes
Group Size
Pricing (From)
Adult: (6-99 years)
$5.99
Commentary
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Why take this tour?

The Luxembourg Garden is far more than the prettiest park in Paris — it’s also a way of life. With this VoiceMap tour, you’ll enter the gardens as a visitor, but you’ll soon saunter around them like a local.

While you walk with me, I’ll introduce you to its various elements — historical, natural, sculptural and sporting — while leaving you the freedom to partake as you wish in the lifestyle of the Jardin du Luxembourg. Yes, you may have passed by or even stopped in at all those wonderful pastry shops and stunning churches in the nearby Saint Germain and Latin Quarters, but you can’t truly know the Left Bank until you’ve spent time exploring the gardens’ 62-acres. My goal is to reveal their secrets and history so that you’ll be as at home here as I am as a Parisian.

When the weather’s right, all of Left Bank Paris passes through the Luxembourg Garden. And when the weather’s wrong — well, the weather’s never wrong in the Luxembourg Garden. Here, every sky and each season has its charms.

Along the way, you'll see and hear about:

• Illustrious women
• Mythological drunks
• A jealous cyclops and the queen who admired him
• The birds and the bees and the flowering trees
• A historic apple and pear orchard
• Signs of the German Occupation during WWII
• The patron saint of Paris
• The Paris meridian
• The Statue of Liberty

Though I’ve timed this as a 35-minute walk, I won’t be insulted if you turn me off every now and then to soak in the atmosphere, rest your feet, linger over a view, sit in one of the garden cafés or even nap on one of the inclined chairs.

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What’s included?

  • Lifetime access to this tour in English

  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

  • VoiceMap App for Android and iOS

  • Food/Drink

  • Smartphone and headphones

  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

  • Transportation

Things to know

Before you book

  • The audio guide uses a mobile app.

  • You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour.

  • You'll need to use your own mobile phone and headphones.

  • The tour is only available in English.

Before you go

  • You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour

  • The download should only take a few minutes to complete. If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there

  • Please remember to bring your own headphones and use your own mobile device

  • Please follow the download instructions included to download the tour.

Redemption information

    If this is your first VoiceMap tour, please take a moment to read the important notes below.
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    DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:
    1. Install the VoiceMap mobile app. (Just search the Apple App Store or Google Play for it.)
    2. Create an account
    3. Select Tour Codes from the menu, then select Enter Codes
    4. Enter the code below then select Download Now
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    YOUR CODE:
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    This code can be used by every member of your party. If you have booked for three people, for example, three people can download this tour using the same code. Codes are not case sensitive.
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    PLEASE ALSO NOTE:
    • You can download the tour at any time, before or after your booking date. It’s best to download the tour before you set off for the starting point.
    • When the download completes, you’ll see a screen with a photo of the starting point and directions to it. The red start button will become active when you are at the starting point.
    • This tour follows a set route and includes turn-by-turn directions. It works best if you start it in the right place and follow the directions from one location to the next.
    • The download should only take a few minutes to complete. If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there.
    • Remember to bring your own headphones, unless you have booked a driving tour.
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