Audio tours
in Milan

Audio tours in Milan

History

Milan Cathedral: 600 Years of Marble and Obsession

Italy's largest cathedral took six centuries to complete. It is not a building — it is a city within a city, raised by generations who never saw the finished result. This tour takes you from the outer façades to the high

🎧 26 min 12 stops 🚶 1.2 km ESENPT +2

Dark History

Nazi Milan: The City That Obeyed and Rebelled

On April 29, 1945, the body of Benito Mussolini was hung upside down at a gas station in Milan. Beside him, his mistress. Beside her, fifteen Fascist leaders. The crowd that gathered did not weep. It roared. But this st

🎧 23 min 14 stops 🚶 4.8 km ESENPT +2

Architecture

Milan: the Cathedral That Took Almost Six Centuries to Finish

In 1386 Milan began building a white marble cathedral so ambitious that the Milanese still describe any endless job as being like the fabbrica del Duomo. Napoleon had the facade finished in a rush, and the last bronze do

🎧 22 min 12 stops 🚶 5.94 km ESENPT +2

Art & Culture

Milan: Leonardo, The Last Supper and the Duke Who Lost Everything

Around 1482 a thirty-year-old Florentine arrived in Milan offering his services as a military engineer. He stayed seventeen years working for Ludovico Sforza, il Moro, the man who pushed aside his own nephew and opened I

🎧 27 min 13 stops 🚶 6.92 km ESENPT +2

Suggested plan for Milan

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

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

Milan on a budget

The Trevurs app is free and has 4 audio tours in Milan: 1 h 38 min of narration across 51 stops and 18.9 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.

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Milan 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.

• Milan Cathedral: 600 Years of Marble and Obsession
  Starts at stop 1, “The Impossible Façade” (map) · 26 min of audio · 1.2 km (~20 min on foot) · ~1 h in total
• Nazi Milan: The City That Obeyed and Rebelled
  Starts at stop 1, “The End That Was the Beginning” (map) · 23 min of audio · 4.8 km (~1 h 10 min on foot) · ~1 h 45 min in total
• Milan: the Cathedral That Took Almost Six Centuries to Finish
  Starts at stop 1, “The Facade Napoleon Finished” (map) · 22 min of audio · 5.9 km (~1 h 30 min on foot) · ~2 h in total
• Milan: Leonardo, The Last Supper and the Duke Who Lost Everything
  Starts at stop 1, “The Church the Duke Wanted for His Tomb” (map) · 27 min of audio · 6.9 km (~1 h 45 min on foot) · ~2 h 15 min in total

In one day you can do Milan: Leonardo, The Last Supper and the Duke Who Lost Everything (~2 h 15 min) and Milan: the Cathedral That Took Almost Six Centuries to Finish (~2 h): about 4 h 15 min of touring with audio and walking. Doing all 4 tours takes about 2 days at a relaxed pace, as in the suggested plan on this page.

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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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