Digital City Tours - Explore Aalborg
Take a tour around Aalborg with Explore Aalborg on your smartphone and you will have all you need to discover the city of Aalborg. The Digital City Tours help you discover; the historical parts of Aalborg, the street arts of Aalborg, City highlights, and a guided tour designed for kids.
With the Explore Aalborg on your smartphone, you are all set to for digital city tours in Aalborg. During the guided tours, you will be told exciting stories and facts about Aalborg and experience locations beyond the tourist perspective.
Discover the Historical Aalborg
We will travel together back to "The old Aalborg" and learn more about Aalborg's most interesting streets, buildings, events, and personalities over the last 1000 years. You will be introduced to the city's most important merchants and hear stories from Denmark's last civil war, which took place here in Aalborg. You will also hear chilling accounts from the city's dungeons and squares.
We will pass by 14 points that take us around the old Aalborg, where the city was founded and built from. The tour takes approximately 2 hours.
We will move through different time periods to have a thorough experience through "The old Aalborg". There is also a quiz module in the app where you can compete with others in the group.
The tour starts at Budolfi Church.
Aalborg Street Art
Discover the great variety in Aalborg Street Art and experience the new street art compilations made within the last couple of years. Aalborg feature more than 80 street art compilations which all offers their own story.
The guide will show you where to find each compilation. You decide how many streets arts you want to see and the order in which you see them.
Duration: You can spend an entire day exploring the street arts of Aalborg – or merely half an hour. It is all up to you.
Here's how you do it
Explore Aalborg is a webapp which runs on your smartphone’s browser. When you pick a tour, you will have to allow the app to use the phone´s GPS and your location. Afterwards the app will guide you from spot to spot on the build-in map. When you are in the vicinity of a new spot, it will unlock, and you will be able to read or listen to information saved on that spot.