Discover Nashville with our self-guided tour, exploring Music City’s legendary honky tonks, iconic studios and rich heritage at your own pace. Walk Lower Broadway’s neon-lit Honky Tonk Highway where live music pours from every doorway, then step inside the Ryman Auditorium, Mother Church of Country Music. Visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and trace stories behind America’s greatest songwriters on Music Row. Beyond the music, discover Civil War battlefields, the powerful 1960 sit-in movement, and the only full-scale Parthenon replica outside Athens. Explore vibrant neighborhoods from the trendy Gulch and historic Germantown to East Nashville’s indie spirit. Taste the famous hot chicken at ...
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Ryman Auditorium
Location: Lower Broadway at the Ryman Auditorium
Address: 116 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219
Coordinates: 36.161400, -86.776900
Visitors are encouraged to personalize their experience by choosing their own starting point and the order in which they wish to explore.
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Discover Nashville with our self-guided tour, exploring Music City’s legendary honky tonks, iconic studios and rich heritage at your own pace. Walk Lower Broadway’s neon-lit Honky Tonk Highway where live music pours from every doorway, then step inside the Ryman Auditorium, Mother Church of Country Music. Visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and trace stories behind America’s greatest songwriters on Music Row. Beyond the music, discover Civil War battlefields, the powerful 1960 sit-in movement, and the only full-scale Parthenon replica outside Athens. Explore vibrant neighborhoods from the trendy Gulch and historic Germantown to East Nashville’s indie spirit. Taste the famous hot chicken at ...
Points forts
5 heures et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
5 heures et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Carte numérique.
Access to the audio guide for 60+ Nashville attractions, music venues, and hidden spots.
Visite à pied autoguidée (application)
Private transportation
Notre visite autoguidée basée sur une application n'a pas de guide physique sur place.
Frais d’entrée aux attractions touristiques ou aux musées.
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Ryman Auditorium
Location: Lower Broadway at the Ryman Auditorium
Address: 116 Fifth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219
Coordinates: 36.161400, -86.776900
Visitors are encouraged to personalize their experience by choosing their own starting point and the order in which they wish to explore.
Nashville’s legendary entertainment district stretches along Lower Broadway from First to Fifth Avenue, where more than thirty live music venues create the world’s most concentrated strip of honky tonks. Music plays from ten in the morning until three at night, every day of the year, with no cover charges at any venue. Musicians play for tips, making this the most accessible live music experience in America. The neon signs, boot shops, and constant stream of music from open doorways create an atmosphere unlike anything else.
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Ryman Auditorium
The Mother Church of Country Music began as the Union Gospel Tabernacle in 1892, built by riverboat captain Thomas Ryman after a religious conversion. The Grand Ole Opry broadcast from this stage from 1943 to 1974, and the venue’s stained glass windows and wooden pews give it a sacred feeling that performers describe as unlike any other stage. Self-guided tours reveal the backstage areas where legends from Hank Williams to Johnny Cash waited to perform, and the building’s acoustics remain exceptional.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The largest museum dedicated to the preservation of country music houses over two million artifacts spanning the genre’s evolution from Appalachian folk music to today’s mainstream sound. The building itself is architecturally symbolic, designed to resemble a bass clef from above, with a Cadillac fin tower and piano keyboard windows. Exhibits trace the stories of inducted members through instruments, costumes, handwritten lyrics, and personal effects that bring the music’s history to life.
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Historic RCA Studio B
The two-block stretch of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Avenues South became the center of Nashville’s recording industry beginning in 1954, producing the ‘Nashville Sound’ that transformed country music into a mainstream genre. RCA Studio B, where Elvis Presley recorded over two hundred songs and Roy Orbison recorded ‘Only the Lonely,’ is preserved as a working museum accessible through the Country Music Hall of Fame. The Musica statue at the Music Row roundabout celebrates the district’s creative legacy.
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The Parthenon
Nashville’s full-scale replica of the original Athenian Parthenon was built for the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition and explains why Nashville earned the title Athens of the South. Inside stands a forty-two-foot gilded statue of Athena Parthenos, the tallest indoor sculpture in the Western world, recreating Phidias’s lost original. The surrounding Centennial Park provides green space, a lake, and walking paths that offer a peaceful contrast to Broadway’s energy.
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The Gulch
The trendy Gulch neighborhood transformed from abandoned railroad yards into Nashville’s most walkable urban district, where converted warehouses house restaurants, boutiques, and the famous Wings and I Believe in Nashville murals that have become social media landmarks. The area’s development represents Nashville’s evolution from purely a music city into a broader cultural and culinary destination.
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The Nashville Palace
Nashville was the site of the first successful major sit-in campaign in the American South when Black students from Fisk, Meharry, and Tennessee State universities launched organized sit-ins at downtown lunch counters beginning February 13, 1960. Led by Diane Nash and a young John Lewis, the movement endured violence and arrests before forcing Nashville’s businesses to desegregate, creating a model that spread across the South and helped shape the national Civil Rights movement.
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Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center
The longest-running radio broadcast in American history began in 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance and has aired continuously ever since, making it the show that built Nashville’s identity as Music City. The current Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland seats 4,400 and hosts weekend shows mixing country legends with emerging artists, preserving the tradition of live radio performance. Backstage tours reveal the circle of wood from the original Ryman Auditorium stage built into the Opry floor.
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Belle Meade Historic Site & Winery
This antebellum plantation established in 1807 became one of America’s premier Thoroughbred horse breeding farms, producing bloodlines that run through many Kentucky Derby winners. The Greek Revival mansion, reconstructed slave quarters, and bourbon tasting experiences tell the complex story of Southern wealth built on enslaved labor, addressing both the plantation’s equestrian achievements and the lives of the enslaved people whose work made them possible.
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East Nashville
East Nashville’s Five Points intersection anchors the city’s most eclectic neighborhood, where independent restaurants, vintage shops, craft cocktail bars, and live music venues reflect the creative community that transformed a neglected area after the 1998 tornado. The neighborhood hosts the annual Tomato Art Festival and maintains a proudly independent identity distinct from the tourist-focused Broadway scene, offering visitors an authentic taste of how Nashville’s residents actually live and socialize.
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Passerelle piétonne John Seigenthaler
The pedestrian bridge spanning the Cumberland River provides Nashville’s best skyline views and connects downtown to the riverfront’s green spaces, walking paths, and the panoramic overlook that has become the city’s most photographed vantage point. Cumberland Park below offers interactive water features, climbing structures, and riverside paths that reveal how Nashville has reclaimed its waterfront for public enjoyment.