History Walking Tour in St. Augustine

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1 hour 30 minutes (approximately)
Offered in: English

Let's go explore America’s oldest city and learn about the three different countries that controlled St. Augustine for most of the past 450 years. You will walk along our famous harbor and see the oldest masonry fort in America. Get to know the oldest grid system in our country, while walking the same streets as people like buccaneer Robert Searle, Henry Flagler, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Frost and even Martin Luther King Jr did many years ago. We want you to get familiar with the city so you can go off and experience everything St. Augustine has to offer!

What's Included

All Fees and Taxes

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

Please meet your guide in front of The Bart Art Gallery at 11D Aviles Street. This is across the street from the Historical Research Library that is located in the Segui-Kirby Smith House.

End point
Plaza de la Constitución

The tour finishes back in the center of the city at the main Plaza, very near to where the tour started.

Itinerary

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (approximately)
  • 1

    Ximenez-Fatio House Museum is one of the best-preserved and most authentic Second Spanish Period residential buildings in St. Augustine, Florida.

    5 minutes Admission ticket not included
  • 2
    Spanish Military Hospital Museum

    This St. Augustine museum includes exhibits related to medicine in the colonial period and the general history of the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821). The museum is located at the site of a colonial-era hospital that mirrors the history of Florida.

    5 minutes Admission ticket not included
  • 3
    Plaza de la Constitucion

    The Plaza de la Constitución sits at the center of our historic city. Bordered by the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, Trinity Episcopal, and the Government House, the plaza faces the Bridge of Lions and features a central pavilion used for city events, private events, and live entertainment.

    10 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 4
    Castillo de San Marcos National Monument

    As we stroll along the waterfront, we'll discuss the oldest standing masonry fort in the continental United States!

    10 minutes Admission ticket not included
  • 5
    Huguenot Cemetery

    The Huguenot Cemetery in St. Augustine, Florida located across from the historic City Gate was a Protestant burial ground between the years 1821 and 1884.

    5 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 6

    Over 200 years old, the gate was constructed in 1808, but its history dates back another one hundred years, when St. Augustine was attacked by Carolinian Governor James Moore and his troops.

    10 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 7

    The backbone of the city, St. George Street in St. Augustine is a thoroughfare, pedestrian-only street lined with restaurants, shops, attractions, and immersed in history.

    15 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 8

    The Colonial Quarter is where visitors can experience hundreds of years of Colonial Spanish and British living history in St. Augustine. This two-acre revamped attraction takes vacationers and locals back in time through three centuries of the formation and creation of the nation's oldest city.

    10 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 9

    The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, an institution of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, is dedicated to the first colony of Greek people who came to America in 1768. The Shrine consists of exhibits depicting the life of early Greeks in America and the development of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and the St. Photios Chapel.

    10 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 10
    Flagler College

    The former Ponce de Leon Hotel was an exclusive luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler and completed in 1888. The hotel was designed in the Spanish Renaissance style as the first major project of the New York architecture firm Carrère & Hastings, which would go on to gain world renown.

    10 minutes Admission ticket not included

Additional info

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Supplied by St. Augustine Experiences

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