Bologna Self-Guided Tour: Monuments and Local Foods

Explore Bologna’s top monuments, local foods, and hidden gems with our self-paced audio and written guide.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Via dell’Indipendenza - We begin our walk in Bologna on one of the most characteristic streets by discovering a fantastic aspect of the city: its very long porticoes!
  • Piazza del Nettuno - Its name already evokes the allure of the sea and the power of a god. But this Bolognese square is much more than that: a true microcosm encompassing…
What's Included
  • Text in different languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian)
  • Connected with Google Maps
  • Audio-guide in multiple languages (English, Spanish, Italian)
  • Digital written guide for self-guided city tour
Additional Information

If you’re looking for a fun and curious way to visit Bologna, you’ve come to the right place!
With this guide created by a local, you will be able to visit all the most important monuments at your own pace. You’ll get to know the stories and curiosities of Bologna! But also you will discover everything about local foods, Italian aperitivo in authentic…

Location
Piazza XX Settembre
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Julie_t
Jul 3, 2025
Very easy self guiding tour - This tour was very easy to use. In fact we had used it in Verona and decided to get it again for Bologna. As I had a connection, it was very easy to use. Just popped in my earbuds and could easily get the details.
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Jane_t
Jun 13, 2025
Highlights of Bologna - a self guided tour - An excellent audio and written tour, that you can do at your own pace. Interesting dialogue and links to Google maps that takes you round the main sites of Bologna 🇮🇹
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Jtx5113do
Jun 12, 2025
Very informative We enjoyed the tour over 2 days in glorious sunshine 🌞 - An informative tour that you can enjoy at your own pace in the glorious sunshine 🌞 I highly recommend 👌 this tour excellent dialogue and directions
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Ccp32
Jun 26, 2025
Memorable dash in and out - Quick and informative acquaintance with the city. Great for visitors here for business and not much time to look around. Highly reccomended.
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334clemensk
Jun 22, 2025
For the narrow money a good thing for short city tours. - I bought and used digital walkingcap tours for Trento, Padua, Genoa, Turin and Bologna. For the money (between 6 and 9 euros, after the first time you get a 2-euro discount) , if you only have such a 2 to 4 hours for a city, that is really good, but of course can not rush a guide in presence on the spot. It definitely helped me to orient myself in the respective cities.
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Nicolau
Jun 14, 2025
Bologna center - With interest as it indicates the main points of interest of the historic area of Bologna. Following carefully during the journey.
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Beko61
Jun 11, 2025
One copy would have been enough - The guide was good and considered the main sights of the city. But why you should take 2 guides as a couple is not clear to me. Downloading once and following the English audio guide together is quite enough, in the written text anyway. Therefore only 4 stars
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Ihateliver
Jun 10, 2025
Highly recommended - If you want a simple guide to see the best of Bologna without joining a tour group, this works really well and is very good value. We found the duration and the level of detail provided to be just right. A small problem with activation was quickly and easily sorted by the author using WhatsApp.
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Georges_f
Jul 8, 2025
Not worth it, even for the low price - The only upside of this tour is that it gives you a list of all the noteworthy things to view in the city. The entire thing could easily be replicated by asking any AI to give you s your itself. The audio is extremely short (between 30 seconds and 1 minute at each stop). It does not add much context or give you much history. Further more it is recorded in a very robotic fashion and doesn't feel interesting or intriguing. Wouldn't recommend anyone getting this tour honnestly. Just load any pre-made list on Google maps on your phone and then ask Gemini or ChatGPT to give you a brief overview of every point of interest once you're there.
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Gedz11
Jul 20, 2025
Waste of time, poor instructions to find tour location, not even ‘Information Centre’ knew of this company - We were unable to find location of ‘White Cap’ after walking in heat for over an hour trying to find location both the start & the end, tried phoning number provided no answer, we gave up!! A complete waste of our time and money . Very disappointed, would like a refund
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).