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Graz Second World War Audio Guide and Self Guided Tour

By gAIdly – Self-Guided Audio Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £3 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

Graz Under National Socialism

Walk the streets where one of Austria's darkest chapters unfolded. This self-guided audio tour traces Graz's role during the Nazi era and the Second World War — from the Anschluss and the persecution of Jewish and political communities, to the Allied bombing raids that left scars still visible today. Hear the personal stories behind the buildings and squares you pass, told with the historical depth this period demands. A serious walk, at your own pace.

How It Works

No human person for guiding (tourguide), this is self-guided audio tour. You use your own smartphone to navigate and listen. No app download is required—just click the access link in your ticket to begin instantly. This route explores the free public sights, so no entrance tickets are needed or included.

Tour Details

  • Duration: 2h walking, 30m audio
  • Stops: 8
  • Start: Am Eisernen Tor
  • End: Uhrturm Graz
  • Languages: EN, DE

Activity location

  • Am eisernen Tor
    • 8010, Graz, Austria

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Am Eisernen Tor
    • Am Eisernen Tor
    • 8010, Graz, Steiermark, Austria

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Graz Second World War Audio Guide and Self Guided Tour in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • Opening hours: Mon 10:00-16:00
  • English
Price details
£2.58 x 1 Adult£2.58
Total
Price is £2.58

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Audio and Writing in different Languages
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Audio Guide App
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Headphones

Know before you book

  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Am eisernen Tor

  • 10m
A gilded Baroque column to the Virgin Mary marks the southern gateway into Graz's old town. In 1938 the National Socialist regime sheathed it in a towering propaganda obelisk to crown the city it had named 'City of the People's Uprising'.

Church of the Franciscans (Franziskanerkirche)

  • 10m
A medieval friary church whose narrow Gothic chancel was gutted by an Allied bomb in the last winter of the war. Its tall tower still rises over the old town as a quiet witness to the destruction of 1945.

Altstadt von Graz

  • 10m
The medieval heart of Graz, framed by the grand Rathaus and the bronze Archduke Johann Fountain. In 1938 this square became a stage for Nazi mass rallies and was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz.

Grazer Landhaus

  • 10m
The grand artery of the old town, lined with arcaded shops and the Renaissance Landhaus, the seat of Styrian power. It also runs through the heart of what was once Graz's Jewish quarter, whose community was shattered in 1938.

Grazer Burg

  • 10m
A late-Gothic ducal residence begun for Friedrich III in 1438, today the seat of the Styrian provincial government. Under National Socialism the same halls of power housed the apparatus of Gauleiter Siegfried Uiberreither.

Herrengasse

  • 10m
The building beside the Paulustor that housed the Graz Gestapo from 1938 to 1945, where thousands were interrogated and tortured. Today only a small plaque in the inner courtyard of the police detention centre marks what happened here.

Schlossberg

  • 10m
A network of more than six kilometres of tunnels driven into the hill above you, dug from 1943 onward by prisoners of war and forced labourers to shelter Graz from Allied bombs. Today people glide through the rock in a glass lift, but the stone remembers the hands that hewed it.

Uhrturm

  • 10m
The beloved clock tower crowning the Schlossberg, where the people of Graz once paid a ransom to save it from demolition. From the summit, the whole rebuilt city spreads out beneath you.

Location

Activity location

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    Am eisernen Tor
    • 8010, Graz, Austria

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Am Eisernen Tor
    • Am Eisernen Tor
    • 8010, Graz, Steiermark, Austria

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