Inverness Audio Tour: Bridges, Spires & Highland Intrigue

Explore Inverness at your own pace

Above the River Ness, Inverness Castle sits like a red sandstone warning, watching a city built on allegiance, rebellion, and quiet power.

This self guided audio tour leads through Inverness, from the castle heights to civic chambers of the Highland Council area and the shadowed reach of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. Hear the stories most visitors miss, stitched into streets, stones, and official doorways.

Which decision inside these walls tipped a political battle into lasting fallout, fast? What scandal still lingers behind parish records and locked vestry rooms, unnamed? Why would a single signature, dated in an ordinary Inverness office, echo through the Highlands?

Photo: Robin Canfield, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 2 hours 54 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 8.9 km (5.5 miles)
• Stops: 20 landmarks, including Victorian Market, Eastgate Shopping Centre, Crown Church, Inverness
• Audio: up to 50 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Victorian Market

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Where you will stop

• Victorian Market
• Eastgate Shopping Centre
• Crown Church, Inverness
• HM Prison Inverness
• Siege of Inverness
• Inverness Castle
• Royal Northern Infirmary
• Eden Court Theatre
• Politics of the Highland council area
• Inverness Cathedral
• Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness
• Inverness Town House
• Inverness Town Steeple
• Greig Street Bridge
• Old High St Stephen's
• Rose Street Foundry
• Inverness Justice Centre
• St Michael & All Angels, Inverness
• Glen Albyn distillery
• ShipSpace

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: George Hiles, Robin Canfield (Unsplash).