Paris · Beirut بيروت
Flâne is a guide to Paris and Beirut that opens in your phone’s browser, and once you have chosen a walk and put the phone in your pocket, voices who know the streets tell you where to stand and what you are looking at.
Two cities
Each city has a guide of its own, written for the way its streets are read, and both open in your phone’s browser with nothing to install.
Its history and its architecture, building by building
Nineteen walks told in your ear, and a living 3D map on which all 128,175 buildings of the city are dated, each one ready to tell you what happened behind its front.
Walk Beirut with two Beirutis in your ear
Maya and Karim tell ten walks through their city and seven day trips beyond it, with a film on its five thousand years and the dishes to order tonight.
Listen
Press play to hear the opening lines, with Claire and Louis on the Île de la Cité and Maya and Karim in Gemmayzeh.
Paris
Claire and Louis
Press play to hear them begin the walk round the island where Paris began.
The opening of the Île de la Cité walk
Beirut
Maya and Karim
Press play to hear them start a walk through Gemmayzeh.
The opening of the Gemmayzeh walk
How a walk works
Flâne opens in your phone’s browser, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app.
Each walk starts by telling you how long it takes and where it goes, and the map takes you to the first stop.
At every stop the voices tell you where to stand and what to look for, and the next stop opens by itself when you reach it.
Stop for a coffee or come back tomorrow, and save a walk before you set out so it plays without mobile data.
For hotels
Scan the card in your room, and the whole guide opens for your stay under your hotel’s name, with its own addresses inside. Hotels, guesthouses and hosts can give it to every guest.
Questions
Flâne opens in your phone’s browser with nothing to download, and you can add it to your home screen from the browser’s share menu so it opens full screen like any app.
Save a walk before you set out and it plays offline, with its voices, its photographs and its map.
Each city opens for $29, paid once, and every city Flâne opens is yours for $129 a year, or for 40% less when you are the guest of a hotel that works with Flâne. The Beirut guide opens to every traveller soon, and guests of the hotels that work with Flâne have it free for their stay.
The Paris guide speaks English and French, voices included. The Beirut guide is in English, and Maya and Karim say the names of streets and dishes the way Beirutis say them.
Neither guide asks for an account, and your progress is kept on your phone.
