Walks – Explore the city – Innsbruck Greeters

City walks

landscape format; yellow house facade with windows; glass front in the bottom half of the picture mirrors the famous panorama of the coloured houses. The distortion in the mirror makes the panorama hardly recognizable.

The famous panorama of coloured houses, mirrored

landscape format; Row of houses, pretty facades in pastel colours, from the foreground in the left getting smaller with the perspective to the right.

Facades in the Claudiastreet

landscape format; one big house at a roundabout (not visible); 4 storeys lus a large attic; facade in yellow / beige, the big roof in red with several chimneys; more houses to the left and right of the one in the middle. in the background the snow capped mountains Querformat; ein großes Haus an einem (nicht im bild sichtbaren) Kreisverkehr. 4 Geschoße plus ein großes Dachgeschoß; Fassade in gelglichem Beige, Dach in rot; links und rechts sind weitere Häuser der angrenzenden Straßen sichtbar. Im Hintergrund Berge mit etwas Schnee.

Claudiaplatz

landscape format; facade of one house, ground floor plus 3 storeys, full of art neouveau ornaments; green - yellow - red on light beige; the undecorated ground floor of the house is dark grey, housing several shops.

Winkler House, art noeveau style

landscape format; park with a conifer on the right, for the rest bare deciduous trees (it's wintertime), green meadow, gravel path meandering through it

The park at the river Inn

landscape format; the famous panorama with lots of coloured houses and the snow covered mountains in the background; In the foreground a spacious square with small groups of people sitting on the ground as well as people walking by

The market square with the panoramic view of Mariahilf

landscape format; long red building with big roof, lots of windows in the center and right part of the picture. on the left, as part of the large building, the monastery church in yellow and red. grey sky.

Monastery "Wilten"

A stroll through different residential areas of Innsbruck, from workers’ class quarters to the mansion district. Along the way we might also pass by so called South Tyrolean settlements, stemming from the relocation of 70.000 people just before World War II. Maybe we get a chance to take a sneak peak into one of the courtyards.

The oldest part of town

One of the oldest roads in Innsbruck
Castle Büchsenhausen
Old house on Kirschental Lane
Village scenery in Hötting

This is not the old town, but a much older part of Innsbruck. We walk through the northern areas, St. Nikolaus, Hötting and Mariahilf, which still are like a village in the middle of the city. Take a look at the backside of that famous panorama and find out how close to the mountain the city is located.

The old town

Landscape format; facade of a large white house with many windows, in the middle the representational balcony with the Golden Roof. Behind the house the snow capped mountains. At the left and right side of the picture rows of houses leading to the large white house. — The Golden Roof

Many greet requests ask for a tour through the old town. However, neither are Innsbruck greeters tourist guides nor are the greets a free replacement for the classic guided tours. A greet’s purpose is to provide the opportunity for personal encounters with locals and to get to know the place you’re visiting in a rather intimate way. We don’t talk about historic dates.

Depending on which route we’re walking, in many cases we’ll have the opportunity to visit the old town or other sights and we’ll of course show you where to take that one picture every tourist ought to take before she leaves town.

If you are interested in a classic tour through the old town and to the main sights of Innsbruck we recommend you check out the various professional offers. Search the web or visit these sites:

Austria Guides – certified guides
Tourism-Board Innsbruck, Guided City Tours