Princeton sits at a rare intersection of colonial history, revolutionary politics, and world-changing intellect. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll trace how a small colonial college became a cradle of American democracy, shaped by presidents, physicists, and a few literary legends along the way. The tour starts at the FitzRandolph Gate, the ceremonial entrance most students refuse to use for fear of never graduating. From here, you'll explore Nassau Hall, which briefly served as the United States Capitol in 1783, and wind through the Gothic archways of East Pyne Hall, a courtyard that has doubled as a film set for A Beautiful Mind, Transformers, and Oppenheimer. You'll pass through the ...
Höhepunkte
Von 1 Stunde und 15 Minuten bis 1 Stunde und 45 Minuten
Angeboten in Englisch
Kostenlose Stornierung
Mobiles Ticket
Von 1 Stunde und 15 Minuten bis 1 Stunde und 45 Minuten
Angeboten in Englisch
Kostenlose Stornierung
Mobiles Ticket
Was ist enthalten?
Lebenslanger Zugang zu dieser Tour in englischer Sprache vor und nach Ihrem Buchungsdatum
Offline-Zugriff auf Audio, Karten und Geodaten
Flexibilität, um mit einer selbstgeführten GPS-Tour in Ihrem eigenen Tempo zu erkunden
App für Android und iOS
Wegbeschreibung zum Startpunkt, damit die Tour startet, wenn Sie am richtigen Ort sind
Smartphone und Kopfhörer
Transport
Essen und Trinken
Persönliche Ausgaben für Eintrittsgelder, die während der Tour nicht inbegriffen sind
Treffpunkte
Abreise
Nassau St & Witherspoon St - Palmer Square
This tour starts at FitzRandolph Gate. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
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Stand before the oldest building on campus, a sturdy brownstone landmark that has survived two wars, a lightning strike, and more than 275 years of student life — and briefly housed the entire United States government in 1783. Step through its archways to find Cannon Green, where a captured British cannon stands buried barrel-down, and rub the bronze tigers' ears for good luck before your next exam.
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Princeton University Art Museum
Explore one of the finest university art collections in the world, spanning five millennia of human creativity across galleries that range from ancient Mediterranean antiquities to contemporary American works. Wander at your own pace through a building that manages to feel both scholarly and genuinely surprising, with masterworks tucked around every corner.
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Albert Einstein House
Pause outside the modest white clapboard house on Mercer Street where the 20th century's most celebrated mind lived quietly for the last two decades of his life. Einstein walked these tree-lined streets every day to and from the Institute for Advanced Study, a familiar figure in rumpled clothes who reportedly got lost in Princeton's neighbourhoods more than once.
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Prospect House & Garden
Stroll through the elegant formal garden behind the university's Victorian Italianate mansion, laid out in the early 20th century by Beatrix Farrand, one of America's pioneering female landscape architects. The symmetrical beds, rose plantings, and seasonal colour make this one of Princeton's most quietly beautiful corners, a green retreat at the heart of an otherwise Gothic campus.
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Princeton Universität
Walk the storied Gothic Revival campus whose archways, courtyards, and gargoyle-studded facades have stood in for Oxford, Harvard, and MIT in films from A Beautiful Mind to Oppenheimer. Look up at the FitzRandolph Gate, listen for a cappella harmonies drifting from Blair Arch, and find the dormitory windows where F. Scott Fitzgerald once looked out over a campus he would immortalise in fiction.
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Institute for Advanced Study
Approach the serene woodland campus where Einstein, Kurt Gödel, and some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers came to work without teaching obligations or administrative demands. The Institute has operated since 1930 as a place apart — no grades, no students, no pressure — a rare environment where pure thought has been the only requirement.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
Pass the gracious Federal and Gothic buildings of America's oldest Presbyterian seminary, founded in 1812 and set on grounds that feel deliberately unhurried amid Princeton's intellectual bustle. The seminary shaped generations of American religious and civic life, its graduates spreading across pulpits, mission fields, and public service for more than two centuries.
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Palmer Square
Step into Princeton's handsome colonial revival town centre, designed in the 1930s to complement the university's architecture and give the borough a cohesive historic character it had previously lacked. Browse the independent shops, pause at a café terrace, and look across to Nassau Street where the boundary between town and gown has always been pleasantly blurred.
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Firestone Library
Marvel at the scale of one of the world's great research libraries, whose limestone Gothic exterior conceals floor upon floor of stacks holding over four million volumes beneath ground level. Peer through the entrance at a collection that includes a Gutenberg Bible, original manuscripts, and archives that scholars travel from across the globe to consult.
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Princeton University Chapel
Enter one of the largest university chapels in the world, a soaring Gothic structure completed in 1928 whose stained glass, carved oak, and stone tracery rival the great medieval cathedrals of Europe. Look carefully among the gargoyles and decorative stonework for the architect's self-portrait, hidden in plain sight on a building he considered his masterpiece.
Princeton sits at a rare intersection of colonial history, revolutionary politics, and world-changing intellect. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll trace how a small colonial college became a cradle of American democracy, shaped by presidents, physicists, and a few literary legends along the way. The tour starts at the FitzRandolph Gate, the ceremonial entrance most students refuse to use for fear of never graduating. From here, you'll explore Nassau Hall, which briefly served as the United States Capitol in 1783, and wind through the Gothic archways of East Pyne Hall, a courtyard that has doubled as a film set for A Beautiful Mind, Transformers, and Oppenheimer. You'll pass through the ...
Höhepunkte
Von 1 Stunde und 15 Minuten bis 1 Stunde und 45 Minuten
Angeboten in Englisch
Kostenlose Stornierung
Mobiles Ticket
Von 1 Stunde und 15 Minuten bis 1 Stunde und 45 Minuten
Angeboten in Englisch
Kostenlose Stornierung
Mobiles Ticket
Was ist enthalten?
Lebenslanger Zugang zu dieser Tour in englischer Sprache vor und nach Ihrem Buchungsdatum
Offline-Zugriff auf Audio, Karten und Geodaten
Flexibilität, um mit einer selbstgeführten GPS-Tour in Ihrem eigenen Tempo zu erkunden
App für Android und iOS
Wegbeschreibung zum Startpunkt, damit die Tour startet, wenn Sie am richtigen Ort sind
Smartphone und Kopfhörer
Transport
Essen und Trinken
Persönliche Ausgaben für Eintrittsgelder, die während der Tour nicht inbegriffen sind
Treffpunkte
Abreise
Nassau St & Witherspoon St - Palmer Square
This tour starts at FitzRandolph Gate. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.