The Lost Generation of Montparnasse: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

About this tour

Trace the footsteps of 1920s Montparnasse's literary and artistic circles—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, Modigliani and others—through a self-guided audio tour of Paris. Using GPS and the VoiceMap app, you'll navigate cafés and neighbourhoods where these figures lived and worked, stopping whenever you like. The 70-minute tour works offline and gives you lifetime access to revisit the Lost Generation's haunts at your own rhythm.

Highlights

• Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, Modigliani and Kiki de Montparnasse's actual gathering spots
• GPS-triggered audio commentary plays at precise locations
• Offline app means no data roaming needed
• Pause and explore cafés where artists sketched and wrote
• Lifetime access—return whenever you're in Paris
• Navigate at your own pace, no group or fixed schedule

What to expect

You'll download the VoiceMap app and begin at a marked starting point in Montparnasse. As you walk between historic cafés and studios, the audio activates automatically when you reach each location, delivering context on the writers, painters and photographers who gathered there. Expect a mix of street-level exploring and sitting stops—many of the original bars remain, so you can linger over coffee while the commentary plays. The route is walkable for most fitness levels and takes roughly 70 minutes if you move steadily, though you control the pace entirely.

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