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Live tours in Freiburg

Explore Freiburg, Germany, live with a local who lives there. A guide walks you past Freiburg Münster, Schwabentor and Martinstor on a video call, or talks you through it by phone.

10 live tours From 15,00 €

Explore Freiburg live with a local

Sessions run live, not as a recording: you join at a time in your own time zone, and the guide follows whatever you want to see or ask about. Altstadt is worth asking about: the walkable medieval core criss-crossed by the Bächle.

Every date has a minimum group size: if it does not fill up, it is cancelled and you are refunded in full automatically. Small groups, real answers, no script.

What a live session shows

  • Freiburg Münster A Gothic cathedral with a filigree spire that took over three hundred years to complete and survived WWII bombing largely intact.
  • Schwabentor One of two surviving medieval city gates, painted with a mural of a mounted toll collector.
  • Martinstor The other surviving medieval gate, its upper floors added centuries after the original thirteenth-century tower.
  • Historisches Kaufhaus A sixteenth-century merchants' hall on the Münsterplatz, its facade decorated with statues of Habsburg emperors.
  • Haus zum Walfisch A late Gothic townhouse where the scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam once lived in exile.
  • Bächle Tiny medieval water channels running along Freiburg's streets, originally built for fire fighting and livestock.
  • Schlossberg A forested hill above the old town reached by cable car, with a viewing tower over the edge of the Black Forest.
  • Colombipark A small park built around a nineteenth-century tower folly near the main station.

Neighbourhoods

  • Altstadt the walkable medieval core criss-crossed by the Bächle
  • Vauban a car-light district built on a former barracks, known for its solar rooftops
  • Wiehre a nineteenth-century villa quarter along the Dreisam

Food to know

  • Lange Rote (Freiburg's long red sausage)
  • Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte
  • Flädlesuppe
  • Zwiebelkuchen mit neuem Wein
  • Bibeleskäs

Book a live tour in Freiburg

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Good to know about Freiburg

Do I need to be in Freiburg to join a session?

No. You join from wherever you are; the guide is the one in Freiburg, live on camera or on the phone.

How long does a session last?

Between 0.5 and 1.3 hours, depending on the guide and the topic.

What language is the session in?

Guides here offer German, English and French; pick the one you want when you book.

What if I lose connection partway through?

Rejoin with the same link within a few minutes and the guide will catch you up.

Can I ask the guide anything, or is it a fixed script?

Anything. Sessions leave room for your own questions throughout, not just at the end.