Hanover Old Town City Walk: Discover Medieval Half-Timbered Houses and Historical Sights

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Immerse yourself in the charm of Hanover’s old town with its medieval half-timbered houses and historical sights. Explore the city’s rich history and discover hidden gems on this captivating city walk.

Duration: 2 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

The New Town Hall - Hanover landmark and sought-after photo opportunity

City hall dome with the four city models

Altstadt - idyllic streets framed by historic half-timbered houses
Staatsoper Hannover - built by Georg Friedrich Laves in the style of late Classicism was built
Aegidienkirche - Ruin of the Aegidienkriche, which serves today as Mahnmaql

What's Included

Personal guide

Additional Information

Step into history as you wander through the captivating old city, with its labyrinthine lanes and landmarks that embody the Hanover of yesteryears.
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Location

Hannover Tourist Information

Ernst-August-Platz

opposite the main station

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

3.9

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268yingw

Oct 22, 2023

Great tour for German-speaking guests, not so much for English speakers - The design of the tour is great! It covers most attractions at the city center. Our guide is very knowledgeable and fun as well. He brought us Leibniz biscuits to taste on the tour. However, the tour is conducted in German. The guide would catch up very briefly the content in English while walking towards the next atrraction. If I didn't use real-time Google translator, I would miss most of what he said.

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Natallia_r

Jun 10, 2023

Recommended - The tour was great. Bi-lingual guide was very nice and was able to pay equal attention to German and English speaking tourists. We learned a lot of historical facts.

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Bob

Aug 21, 2023

Red Thread self guided walking tour - There is a Red Thread self led tour you can do by following the red line painted on the pavement starting from the Information Centre in the main square outside the Hauptbahnhof. You can buy a guide for the walk for €3.50 in the Info Centre. The walk is about 4kms long. It’s definitely the way to see Hanover if you’re fit and mobile. It visited all the areas we wanted to see, at our own pace.

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Jason

Mar 30, 2023

Informative tour - The tour is really informative and our tour guide very good. We learnt many things about the city and it's people. The only fault I would state was that it was hard with it being spoken in first German then English. Hard for the guide tell the same story twice.

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John_h

Sep 26, 2021

Good tour—if you speak German. - I booked this tour after the Viator site stated that it would be an English tour. However, out of 22 participants, I was the only English speaker. Therefore, naturally, 80% or more of the tour was in German. The tour guide tried to include some English just for me, but she had to do the vast majority of the explanations in the German language. It seemed like a great tour, but I was unable to understand much of it.

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701gernesser

Aug 18, 2023

Very superficial - I wasn't prepared for that. What I experienced was not a city tour. A city walk apparently only means a few thin anecdotes. The guide offered hardly anything informative and certainly no reliable facts; some of it was demonstrably wrong, as I was able to find out later by googling. Overall, it was extremely superficial. What is the content? What is interesting? I couldn't find out. But there was a lot of fiddling around. A few chauvinistic puns here, a bit of joking around there. A few guests dutifully played along. But then the comment that stolen bikes would now be in Poland was questionable. That's not acceptable! Visit-hannover.com would do well to check whether a quality promise can be kept. Given the other positive reviews, today's tour seems to have been more of an exception. That would be to be hoped for.

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358ginj

May 8, 2023

Not good - Advertised as suitable for English speakers. The guide then announced that he would do it in German as he could tell us more. Shame we couldn't understand most of it. Luckily for us another customer translated bits. Basically an hour long walk with more than 20 other non English speakers. Probably not worth the money if you can't speak German.

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343judithl

Apr 29, 2023

Not as advertised - The tour is sold as bi-lingual and we specified English as our language on the booking form. The guide did not speak English and it was left to another paying customer to translate the significant parts of the tour. Definitely not as advertised.

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