Zurich: Self-guided Dark Side of the City Audio Tour

Explore the dark side of Zurich as your audio guide tells you about medieval executions and witchcraft in the city. Visit the house where an executioner lived. Listen to true stories about executions.
See Zurich from the perspective of witchhunts and death sentences. Visit the locations where people were executed and tortured. See the Fraumünster church and its famous stained glass windows. Pass by the square where death sentences were announced and the house of a woman executed for witchcraft.
Go to Paradeplatz and plug in your headphones. Take out your smartphone and listen to the audio guide. Travel back 500 years and learn how the beautiful Elsbeth, suspected of witchcraft, endured torture, how cruelly the maid Adelheid was executed, and how rich Agatha could not escape a death sentence.
See the house of an executioner and his picture. Find out the salary he received. Discover the place where those accused of witchcraft were tortured. Hear about a woman who was tortured 15 times during 26 days. 
Go to the Fraumünster church, and gaze at its stained glass windows by Marc Chagall, which depict the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Visit a monument to Hans Waldmann, executed in 1489, and learn about his life, and death in Zurich.
Walk to the Water Church to learn about the brother and sister who were beheaded for their faith. See the Grossmünster, a Romanesque church, which is considered to be one of the most famous landmarks in Zurich. Discover the place where guidance on how to recognize and torture a witch was available.
Continue to the house of a wealthy Zurich woman who was executed for witchcraft to learn her story. Visit the former place of the pillory. Ramble to the house of a judge who worked during the peak time of the witch-hunt, and learn the story of his revenge. Learn about medieval prosecutions.
Enter the square where the announcement of death sentences took place and witness a memorial plate at the site where people were executed by drowning. Walk to the house where the baker who gave people their last meals lived.
Discover the place where those going to executions exited the city, and understand where they were burned and hanged.

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This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.