Charleston Architecture Tour

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Experience Highlights

Take this tour of Charleston where you'll learn all about the city's architecture. During the approximately 2-hour tour, you will listen to the explanations of a tour guide. Thanks to him, you'll learn all kinds of stories about the city, as well as the architectural style of its most important buildings.

Throughout the walking tour, which you will do with a group of about 20 people, you will see the beauty of the most important buildings of the city. These include Charleston City Hall, the Old Slave Mart Museum, and the sailors' shops on Rainbow Row.

  • Take this guided walking tour of the city of Charleston
  • Learn all about the architectural styles of its most important buildings.
  • Learn about the city's history , as well as its relationship to slavery on its former plantations.

What’s included

  • Charleston Architecture Tour
  • Tourist guide
  • Tickets are not included

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Step by Step

Join this tour of Charleston's architecture with a tour guide. He or she will tell you all about the city's most important buildings while relating them to the city's history. The tour is on foot and lasts approximately 2 hours. Groups are usually about 20 people per tour.

Charleston is a city steeped in history, being the largest city in all of South Carolina. Centuries ago it was one of the largest slave plantation towns in South Carolina. Today, however, it has a much more inclusive atmosphere for everyone.

During the tour, you will visit some of the city's most famous monuments and buildings. Some of these include:

  • Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon: the place where the Declaration of Independence was read in 1776.
  • Dock Street Theater: the first theatre to be built in the British colonies.
  • St. Michael's Church: built in 1761 still retains its original wood and stained glass windows
  • Charleston City Hall: one of the country's oldest city halls
  • Old Slave Mart Museum
  • Nathaniel Russel House
  • Edmondston-Alston House
  • Rainbow Row

Reviews

4.2
· 391 Reviews
  • D
    Deborah
    5
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    All ok.
  • B
    Bernardo
    5
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    A wonderful tour from start to finish.
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    Diogo
    5
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    I have to admit that this tour far exceeded my expectations, I imagined a more boring tour, but it turned out to be the opposite. The guide who accompanied us was amazing and knew how to explain everything in a very clear and precise way. One of the best experiences I had during my vacation.
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    Derek
    4
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    Good tour, better than I expected.
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