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The previous price was RM 28 and current price is RM 22 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 44m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Dive into a city where quantum mechanics was discussed over coffee and the first telegraph wires hummed over medieval streets. This is not an ordinary university tour, but an exploration of Göttingen's role as an intellectual melting pot of the modern world. Accompany a city historian and an expert on the tangible details of the past through the triumphs, quirky traditions, and moral crises of great thinkers. From the Goose Girl fountain to the silent gravestones of the Nobel laureates, you will learn how Göttingen not only harbored genius but actively demanded it.

    • 6.8 km self-guided tour with 7 stations over 164 min.
    • Ideal for everyone interested in urbanism, infrastructure, and innovation
      Excitingly told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Suitable audio content, AI guide, and navigation via the app

Activity location

  • Gaenseliesel
    • Markt
    • 37073, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Gänseliesel
    • Markt
    • 37073, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany

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Podcast Tour Göttingen The Gravity of Genius in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 44 minutes2h 44m
    2h 44m
  • Opening hours: Wed 0:00-23:59
  • English
Price details
RM 27.36
RM 21.89 x 2 AdultsRM 43.78
Total
The previous price was RM 54.72 and current price is RM 43.78
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Exciting audio output in podcast style with experts and locals
  • Inclusions
    Interactive guide in the app for questions about history and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Verified facts incorporated into an exciting story
  • Inclusions
    Point-to-point navigation between stops

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transportation options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Gaenseliesel

  • 10m
The iconic fountain where freshly graduated doctors of Göttingen perform the most famous academic ritual.

Great Assembly Hall of Göttingen University

  • 10m
The historic auditorium, which represents the institutional prestige and complex history of the university.

Gauss-Weber Monument

  • 10m
A monument to celebrate the collaboration from which the first electromagnetic telegraph emerged.

Historic Observatory

  • 10m
The historic observatory and home of Carl Friedrich Gauss, a refuge for pure mathematics.

Denkmal der Gottinger Sieben

  • 10m
A modern square in honor of the seven professors who risked everything in 1837 to defend the constitution.

Forum Wissen

  • 10m
A contemporary museum that explores the chaotic, complex, and often political process of knowledge creation.

Stadtfriedhof Göttingen

  • 10m
The final resting place of the Göttingen Nobel laureate, a silent testament to mortality and legacy.

Location

Activity location

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    Gaenseliesel
    • Markt
    • 37073, Goettingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Gänseliesel
    • Markt
    • 37073, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany

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