Stroll through Bologna with the free GuideXpress audio guide and discover a city of porticoes, towers and historic squares. Your route can take you from Piazza Maggiore to the Basilica of San Petronio, from the Two Towers to the Archiginnasio and the landmarks of its ancient university.
The Bologna audio guide app lets you visit the city on your own, listening to stories and curiosities right in the places where they happened. You will find geolocated audio guides and routes dedicated to medieval Bologna, its university, its food culture and its monuments.
Bologna is a city that invites you to walk. Its long porticoes link squares, churches, towers, university buildings and markets, creating a historic centre particularly well suited to being discovered on foot.
With the GuideXpress Bologna audio guide you can visit it without following a group, freely choosing your stops and listening to the content when you reach a point of interest.
The app becomes a digital tourist guide to Bologna, always available on your smartphone.
The heart of the visit is Piazza Maggiore, surrounded by important historic buildings and dominated by the Basilica of San Petronio.
Not far away are the Neptune Fountain, the Archiginnasio and the famous Two Towers, one of the city's most recognisable symbols.
An itinerary can then continue among the porticoes, churches and old districts of the centre.
A classic walk can start at Piazza Maggiore and cross the medieval heart of the city as far as the Two Towers.
Along the way you come across palaces, historic markets and streets that tell of centuries of city life.
The audio guide lets you explore these places in depth without turning the walk into a rigid tour.
Bologna is inseparable from its university, traditionally considered the oldest in the Western world.
Buildings such as the Archiginnasio, together with the streets of the university quarter, tell the story of the centuries-old relationship between the city, its students and the pursuit of knowledge.
GuideXpress lets you discover this history right in the places where it unfolded.
Beyond the most famous monuments, Bologna offers historic markets, porticoes, courtyards and districts that deserve to be explored.
An alternative itinerary might focus on food, on the medieval towers or on the university buildings.
You can use GuideXpress freely or choose Tour Mode and follow a route dedicated to a specific theme.
The children's, classic and encyclopaedic narrations let you personalise the experience even further.
Yes. GuideXpress offers a free Bologna audio guide with content dedicated to the squares, towers, porticoes and main monuments of the historic centre.
The most important attractions include Piazza Maggiore, the Basilica of San Petronio, the Neptune Fountain, the Archiginnasio and the Two Towers.
They are two different experiences. A traditional guide accompanies the visitor in person; a digital guide to Bologna offers greater freedom, letting you decide your route, your breaks and the content you listen to.
With GuideXpress you can walk freely around the centre and activate the audio guides for the attractions you come across, or choose ready-made tours dedicated to history, the university or the monuments.
Yes. For several attractions there are children's versions, alongside the classic and encyclopaedic narrations.
Yes. The historic centre is very walkable, and the porticoes make it easy to move between Piazza Maggiore, the Two Towers and numerous other points of interest.
