Audio tours
in Amsterdam

Audio tours in Amsterdam

Dark History

Anne Frank: the House, the Hiding Place, and What Happened After

Two years hidden in a secret annex. Walk through the canals, squares, and streets where Amsterdam's Jews lived, resisted, and were deported — and discover why the most-read Holocaust diary was written in this city.

🎧 14 min 8 stops 🚶 4.8 km ESENPT +2

History

Amsterdam: The First Multinational and the Price of Nutmeg

In 1602, a group of Amsterdam merchants invented shares, the stock exchange and dividends, and used them to fund a company that could wage war, sign treaties and mint coins. Thirteen stops among canals, warehouses, churc

🎧 18 min 13 stops 🚶 9.83 km ESENPT +2

History

Dark Amsterdam: the Colonial Empire the City Is Starting to Face

The most tolerant republic in Europe financed its golden age with spices, armed monopolies, forced labour and slavery, and took centuries to say so out loud. Twelve stops away from the postcard canals: the streets named

🎧 26 min 12 stops 🚶 9.5 km ESENPT +2

Suggested plan for Amsterdam

Doing every Trevurs tour in Amsterdam takes about 7 h 15 min in total. A relaxed way to split it:

No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.

Amsterdam on a budget

The Trevurs app is free and has 3 audio tours in Amsterdam: 58 min of narration across 33 stops and 24.1 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.

How to travel on a budget with Trevurs →

Amsterdam at your own pace

Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded.

• Anne Frank: the House, the Hiding Place, and What Happened After
  Starts at stop 1, “Anne Frank House” (map) · 14 min of audio · 4.8 km (~1 h 10 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Amsterdam: The First Multinational and the Price of Nutmeg
  Starts at stop 1, “The Other Company” (map) · 18 min of audio · 9.8 km (~2 h 25 min on foot) · ~2 h 45 min in total
• Dark Amsterdam: the Colonial Empire the City Is Starting to Face
  Starts at stop 1, “A Map of Conquests in the Streets” (map) · 26 min of audio · 9.5 km (~2 h 25 min on foot) · ~3 h in total

In one day you can do Dark Amsterdam: the Colonial Empire the City Is Starting to Face (~3 h) and Anne Frank: the House, the Hiding Place, and What Happened After (~1 h 30 min): about 4 h 30 min of touring with audio and walking. Doing all 3 tours takes about 2 days at a relaxed pace, as in the suggested plan on this page.

Exploring at your own pace, and when a guide is better →

Why an audio tour

• ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
• ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
• ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
• ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
• ✓ Works offline once downloaded

Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.

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