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Audio Guide Auvers-sur-Oise
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Auvers-sur-Oise is a small village north of Paris where Vincent van Gogh spent his final 70 days in 1890, producing over 70 paintings. But the town's artistic story begins earlier: Charles-François Daubigny settled here in 1861 and turned it into a gathering point for the painters who would become the Impressionists. Walking its streets today means standing in the same spots where canvases now held in the world's great museums were made.
12+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Auvers-sur-Oise: 12 researched places, from Ravoux Inn (Van Gogh House) to Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and Tombs of Vincent and Theo van Gogh, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: Ravoux Inn (Van Gogh House)
Auvers-sur-Oise
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 12 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Post-Impressionist sites
- Medieval church
- Artists' studios
- Historic inns
- Painters' walks
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Ravoux Inn (Van Gogh House)
Van Gogh's attic room here measures just 7 square meters, yet he paid 3.50 francs a day to rent it and died in it on 29 July 1890, two days after shooting himself. The room has been preserved exactly as it was, making it one of the most intimately scaled memorial spaces in Europe.
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Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
Founded in the late 11th century by King Philippe I near his royal manor, this church blends late Romanesque and early Gothic styles across a nave built under Philippe Auguste. Van Gogh painted it in 1890, and the canvas now in the Musée d'Orsay made it one of the most recognisable medieval buildings in France.
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Tombs of Vincent and Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh died in Utrecht six months after his brother and was buried there, but in 1914 his widow had his body exhumed and reinterred beside Vincent in the village cemetery. The two simple ivy-covered headstones sit side by side, a quiet monument to a relationship that funded and sustained one of the most consequential artistic careers in history.
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Daubigny's House-Studio
When Daubigny built this studio in 1861 he asked painter-architect Achille François Oudinot to design it with a single-floor atelier measuring 8 by 6 meters and reaching 7.50 meters high for maximum light. Every wall inside is covered with painted decoration, totalling 200 square meters, created by Daubigny, Corot, Daumier, and others who gathered here before Impressionism had a name.
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Château of Auvers
Built in 1635 for Zanobi Lioni, an Italian banker tied to the court of Marie de Médicis, the château was later transformed into a French classical estate by a royal treasurer named Jean de Leyrit. Its grounds include a rare nymphaeum and gardens mixing Italian, French, and English styles across eight hectares.
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Absinthe Museum
Founded in 1994 by biologist and writer Marie-Claude Delahaye, this small museum in a traditional Vexin stone house connects absinthe's Belle Époque story directly to the village: Van Gogh and many of the painters who worked here were devoted drinkers of the spirit. Five rooms of artifacts, period advertising, and a garden of absinthe plants trace how the drink shaped the era that shaped this village.
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The Painters' Path
This 9.6-kilometre route was mapped to align the surviving landscape of Auvers with the paintings made here, so you can stand at the exact spot where a canvas was completed and compare the view. Since 2016 the route has also fed into a UNESCO nomination process cataloguing the artists' motifs still visible in the territory.
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12 researched places, from the Ravoux Inn and the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption to lesser-known spots like the Absinthe Museum. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Auvers-sur-Oise once and keep access to all 12 places with text and audio.
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Updated: 2026-09-25