Gingerguide: European city walking tours is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 14 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.
Read-only European city sights: search, nearby, walking routes and itineraries in 6 languages.
Uptime history
76 days of history · worst day 95%
76 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
14
Tools
read from the server
176 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 28 Oct 2026
What changed 52
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 12 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
21 Oct
10 tools appeared
compare_cities, find_day_trips, find_nearby_attractions and 7 more
21 Oct
4 tool descriptions were rewritten
get_catalog_overview, get_city_guide, list_countries and 1 more
21 Oct
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_city_guide, search_cities
21 Oct
a tool changed version
13 Oct
10 tools disappeared
compare_cities, find_day_trips, find_nearby_attractions and 7 more
13 Oct
2 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_city_guide, search_cities
13 Oct
a tool changed version
12 Oct
10 tools appeared
compare_cities, find_day_trips, find_nearby_attractions and 7 more
12 Oct
6 tool descriptions were rewritten
get_catalog_overview, get_city_guide, list_countries and 3 more
12 Oct
5 tools changed the parameters they ask for
get_city_guide, plan_trip_itinerary, plan_walking_tour and 2 more
and 1 more, back to 12 October 2026
Gingerguide: European city walking tours missed 2 checks this week
Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add catalog --transport http https://gingerguide.app/mcpSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://gingerguide.app/mcp~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://gingerguide.app/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"catalog": {
"url": "https://gingerguide.app/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"catalog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://gingerguide.app/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 14
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
plan
plan_trip_itinerary
Multi-day plan for one city: each day covers one or two walkable areas (with a public-transport hop between them), ordered as walking routes, plus sights that did not fit. Example: "three days in Vienna for art and music lovers".
plan_walking_tour
Build an ordered self-guided walking route in one city that fits a time budget, e.g. "a two-hour historical walk in Rome". Picks sights by interests, periods and style, orders them to keep walking short, and returns each stop with walking minutes, suggested time on site, clock times and a Google Maps walking link.
recommend
recommend_attractions
Personalized picks in one city for a traveler's interests, favourite periods, preference for headline sights or hidden gems, indoor or outdoor, and time available. Each pick says why it was chosen. Use plan_walking_tour instead when the traveler wants an ordered route.
recommend_destinations
Suggest covered European cities that fit a traveler's interests or favourite historical periods, e.g. "best cities for Byzantine history" or "a city break for art and food in Spain". Ranks cities by how many of their sights match, and says why.
attraction
get_attraction
Full details for one sight: long description, a notable fact, photo, coordinates, map links, visit minutes, and the nearest other sights with walking minutes. Use the attraction id from search_attractions or get_city_guide.
attractions
search_attractions
Search individual sights across all cities or within one city, by free text, category, interests, historical period, indoor/outdoor, visit length, free entry or distance from a point. Example: five Byzantine sights in Istanbul, Gothic churches in Spain, or free things to do in Rome. Returns name, description, coordinates, visit minutes and page URL for each match.
catalog
get_catalog_overview
Coverage of the Gingerguide catalog: number of cities, sights and countries, supported languages, and the exact values accepted by the category, interests and periods filters of the other tools. Call it first when unsure whether a city or filter value is supported.
cities
search_cities
Find covered European cities by name (in any of the six languages), country or region. Returns the city id needed by the other tools, sight count, summary and web guide URL. Omit query to list all cities.
city
get_city_guide
One city's guide: overview, headline sights, lesser-known sights, and every sight with category, coordinates, visit minutes and a one-line description. Set detail to "full" to add the long description of every sight (large response).
compare
compare_cities
Compare two to four covered cities side by side, e.g. "Porto or Lisbon?" or "Seville vs Granada for Moorish history". Gives each city's sight count, days needed, strongest interests and historical periods, share of indoor sights and headline sights, says which city is stronger for each interest or period, and the distance between them. Based on the sight catalog only: not prices, weather, nightlife or beaches.
countries
list_countries
List covered countries with the ids of their cities.
day
find_day_trips
Day trips from a base city to other covered cities and towns nearby, e.g. "day trips from Florence" or "a day trip from Munich for castles". Ranks destinations by distance, fit with the traveler's interests and periods, and fame, and lists what to see there in one day. Distances are straight-line; travel times are not included because trains, mountains and ferries change them a lot. Only covered cities are listed.
nearby
find_nearby_attractions
Sights closest to a latitude/longitude (for example the traveler's hotel or current position), sorted by walking time, optionally filtered by interests or category. If nothing is within the radius, returns the nearest covered city.
visit
get_visit_info
Practical facts for visiting one city: best months and crowd seasons, climate, annual events that change a visit, how to get from the airport, main station or cruise port to the centre (typical minutes), city passes, which sights are free, which need booking ahead, weekly closing days and dress codes. Every fact has a source and a check date. No prices or opening hours. Researched for some cities only; the answer says when a city is not covered yet.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://gingerguide.app/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 68 ms | 6 min ago |
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Gingerguide: European city walking tours — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Gingerguide: European city walking tours do?
It exposes 14 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_cities, find_day_trips, find_nearby_attractions, get_attraction, get_catalog_overview, get_city_guide and 8 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is Gingerguide: European city walking tours mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around plan and recommend. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Gingerguide: European city walking tours working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 176 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Gingerguide: European city walking tours?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Gingerguide: European city walking tours need an API key?
No. Gingerguide: European city walking tours completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 14 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Gingerguide: European city walking tours?
It answers our handshake in 176 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Gingerguide: European city walking tours open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at gingerguide.app, which runs on its operator's own terms.