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A historical travel passport

Discover history through real places.

From Taras Shevchenko to Nelson Mandela, Histrail connects real places through curated historical journeys. Explore the map, record visits, and complete collections.

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40 collections · English and Ukrainian · iOS and Android

Frontispiece of the first edition of Kobzar, 1840Vasily Sternberg ·Wikimedia Commons· Public domainHistrail app screen: thematic collections

THEMATIC COLLECTIONS

Choose a thread through time.

Each collection connects places through one historical theme—an era, a movement, a conflict, or a life. 650 physical places and 679 collection-specific stories: one place can reveal several themes. Chapters give the journey shape; the map gives it geography.

All 40 collections in the catalog
  1. 01
    1814–1861Premium

    Taras Shevchenko: Life, Painting and the Ukrainian Word

    From family villages to artistic journeys and places of remembrance

    15 placesImage: Vasily SternbergWikimedia CommonsPublic domain
  2. 02
    1833–1915Premium

    Giuseppe Garibaldi and Italian unification

    Volunteers, republic, monarchy and remembrance

    15 placesImage: Vincent Brooks (chromolithography); Henry Graves & Co. (publisher); Wellcome Collection (digital source)Wikimedia CommonsCC BY 4.0
  3. 03
    1916–1923Premium

    Irish independence, 1916–1923

    From the Easter Rising to partition and Civil War

    15 placesImage: EtiennekdWikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 3.0
  4. 04
    1918–1999Premium

    Nelson Mandela and the struggle against apartheid

    From rural childhood to democratic transition

    18 placesImage: Paul WeinbergWikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 3.0
  5. 05
    1520–1566Premium

    Suleiman: Power, Law and Empire

    Court, conquest and patronage, 1520–1566

    15 placesImage: Jorge FranganilloWikimedia CommonsCC BY 2.0
  6. 06
    1869–1948Premium

    Gandhi and Indian independence

    Places of formation, collective resistance and unfinished peace

    15 placesImage: SnehrashmiWikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 07
    1556–1605Premium

    Akbar: the formation of the Mughal Empire

    From an inherited throne to durable imperial power

    15 placesImage: Rameezm razaWikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 4.0

MAP × CHAPTERS

History has coordinates.

Move between a collection’s chapters and map. Open a place preview with historical context, expand the nearby list, and adjust its search radius.

Histrail app screen: collection chapters and progress
Histrail app screen: map of historical places

Foreground location is optional. Directions are not offered for places in Iran or in Ukraine’s Crimea and Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions; their stories and past visits remain available.

Histrail app screen: location story and sources

STORY × EVIDENCE

Every place opens a chapter.

Histrail explains why a place matters, separates surviving evidence from later memory or reconstruction, and keeps its sources traceable.

  1. 01Why this place matters
  2. 02Story
  3. 03Sources

VISIT × COLLECT × COMPLETE

Your journey can start today—or years ago.

Mark a place as visited, choose the date, add a note, and attach a personal photo if you want. You can edit or delete the record later; past trips count too. Every required place you visit moves the collection forward.

Visit dateNote — optionalPhoto — optional

A collection completes when every required place has been visited. A photo is optional.

Histrail app screen: completed collection at 100 percent
100%

YOUR HISTORICAL TRAVEL RECORD

Make history your own.

Visited places, saved places, regions explored, and completed collections stay together in one personal record. Visits with photos counts visits with a stored, accessible photo. Open its list to return to a place.

Your photos, in one place.

  1. Open My photos in Profile.
  2. Browse small photos with the place name and visit date. Load more whenever you choose.
  3. Open the place from a photo to return to its story.

FREE TO BEGIN · PREMIUM TO GO FURTHER

Begin with complete collections. Open the full catalog with Premium.

01

Start with complete journeys

14 collections—and every Histrail mechanic inside them—are free. Admission to physical venues may cost extra.

02

Open the full catalog

Premium opens every current and future historical collection. Among its 26 collections are journeys about Taras Shevchenko and Nelson Mandela.

Premium is purchased and managed through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Plans, local prices, billing periods, and renewal terms are shown in the app before purchase.

History is still there. Follow the trail.

Choose a collection, find the first place, and begin your historical travel record.

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