Paris Assassin's Creed Unity Audio Walking Tour
An unofficial Assassin's Creed Unity walk from the Bastille past Notre-Dame, the Sainte-Chapelle and the Palais-Royal to the Place de la Concorde.
5.8 km walk1 h 20 walking9 stopsFrom Place de la Bastille to Place de la Concorde15 min of storiesEnglish
$17.99
- 9 stops and 15 minutes of stories, told as you reach each place
- The intro and stop 1 are free in the app: try before you buy
- Download before you go; the audio plays without signal (the street map needs a connection)
- Walking with friends? Pick 1 to 10 seats; everyone hears each stop on their own phone, at the same moment
Hear stop 1
30 seconds of the real narration
30 seconds of the real narration
Plays in the free Walk With Me app on iPhone and Android.
A taste of the narration
You're on the Place de la Bastille, and the fortress is gone. Look down: a line of larger paving stones traces its walls, and at number 3 a plaque from 1880 shows its plan.Stop 1, Place de la Bastille
Play the 30 seconds0:00 / 0:30 · the real narration
About this tour
Arno's Paris is real enough to walk in a morning. On foot you feel how close it all was: the prison, the cathedral, the tribunal and the scaffold, an easy stroll apart. You see the game's rooftops from the street, and you stand where the Revolution's real victims died. If you'd like company on your next stroll, open the Walk With Me live map to find other people out walking Paris.
The route
5.8 km in walking order from Place de la Bastille to Place de la Concorde. Stop 1 is free in the app.
- 1Place de la BastilleThe square where the fortress stood, its outline traced in the paving, and who Arno's fellow inmates really were in July 1789.Free in the app
- 2Square Henri-Galli (Bastille stones)A small garden by the river holding real Bastille foundation stones, how they got here, and a detail to keep for the finish.
- 3Île Saint-Louis (Café Théâtre)The quiet main street of a seventeenth-century island, where the game puts Arno's café hideout, and what lies beneath it in Ubisoft's Paris.
- 4Notre-DameThe cathedral's west front and its row of carved kings, the game's largest model, and a 1977 find under a mansion across town.
- 5Sainte-Chapelle & ConciergerieThe royal chapel and the old prison beside the river, where Arno's leap of faith lands and the Revolution's tribunal sat in judgment.€13 to go in
- 6Place du ChâteletThe fountain square on the site of a medieval fortress prison, a game mission from September 1792, and the real killings behind it.
- 7Palais-Royal GardenAn arcaded garden where Arno hunts a deputy on the eve of the king's execution, and how closely the game follows that night.
- 8Tuileries Palace site (Arc du Carrousel)The small triumphal arch beside the lost Tuileries Palace, stormed in August 1792, and the young officer Arno meets inside.
- 9Place de la ConcordeThe guillotine's old square, where the king and later Robespierre died, the game's finale, and a bridge that closes the loop.
Where the story happens
Each stop, the moment of the story it belongs to, and what is there today.
| Stop | In the story | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Place de la Bastille | Arno's cell, shared with the Assassin Pierre Bellec, who trains him; de Sade and Whyte nearby. | An open square; larger paving stones trace the walls, and a plaque from 1880 shows the plan. |
| 2. Square Henri-Galli (Bastille stones) | The storming: Arno and Bellec slip out in the chaos. | Three courses of the Liberty Tower's foundations, found in 1899 and rebuilt here. |
| 3. Île Saint-Louis (Café Théâtre) | The Café Théâtre, Arno's base above the Assassins' headquarters. | Tall seventeenth-century houses on rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Île; the café is invented. |
| 4. Notre-Dame | Arno wins back the keys and kills the Templar Sivert in a confessional. | The cathedral, with nineteenth-century kings on its front; the old heads are in the Musée de Cluny. |
| 5. Sainte-Chapelle & Conciergerie | The leap of faith into the sanctuary, a raid for a Templar ledger, and a fight in 1791. | A ticketed chapel and former prison in the Palais de Justice; no such fight ever happened. |
| 6. Place du Châtelet | September 1792: Arno frees captured guards from the Templar Rouille at the Grand Châtelet. | The Palm Fountain between two theaters; the fortress was demolished between 1802 and 1810. |
| 7. Palais-Royal Garden | 20 January 1793: Arno tracks the deputy Le Peletier to a café here at dinner. | A long garden framed by arcades, where the real deputy's story also played out. |
| 8. Tuileries Palace site (Arc du Carrousel) | 10 August 1792: the palace under siege, and a young artillery officer in the king's office. | Open ground west of the Arc du Carrousel; the palace was burned in 1871. |
| 9. Place de la Concorde | The king's execution, Arno's break with Élise; the finale moves on to the Hôtel de Ville and the Temple. | The obelisk from Luxor, raised in 1836 on the former Place de la Révolution. |
What costs extra
1 stop has a ticket to go inside.
| Stop | Inside | Ticket from |
|---|---|---|
| 5. Sainte-Chapelle & Conciergerie | Needed | €13 |
Is it for you?
Good ifYou have played Unity, or love the Revolution, and want the game's scenes and the real events side by side on a flat walk.
Maybe not ifYou still plan to play the game and want no spoilers, since every stop gives away part of its plot.
Not quite this one?
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