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75 routes
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Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CambodiaAngkor Small Circuit: Sunrise Temples in a Day
The classic one-day loop of Angkor — sunrise at Angkor Wat, the smiling faces of the Bayon in Angkor Thom, and the jungle-swallowed ruins of Ta Prohm.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 17 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Omer berner · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelBeit She'an: Walking Roman Scythopolis
The most complete Roman-Byzantine city in Israel — a colonnaded main street, a theatre for about 7,000, two bathhouses, and columns still lying where an earthquake threw them in 749.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Naotake Murayama · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainBilbao: Guggenheim to Casco Viejo Along the Nervión
A flat, easy day tracing Bilbao's reinvention — from Gehry's titanium museum along the river to the seven medieval streets and the pintxo bars of Plaza Nueva.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Fabio Ciminelli · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyBologna Porticoes Walk: Piazza Maggiore, the Two Towers and San Luca
An easy day through the red-brick heart of Bologna — a great medieval square, two leaning towers, a food market, the oldest university in the Western world, and the longest portico on earth.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ingfbruno · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk USABoston's Freedom Trail: Following the Red Line
A single day tracing the red line of the Freedom Trail, from Boston Common through the old town to the North End and across to Bunker Hill and USS Constitution.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The original uploader was אסף.צ at Hebrew Wikipedia. · Public domainCity walk IsraelCaesarea Maritima: Herod's Roman Port by the Sea
One easy day through a Roman capital on the Mediterranean — theatre, seaside palace, chariot track, Crusader harbour and a great aqueduct on the beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Josh Hallett · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk FranceClassic Paris on Foot: Notre-Dame to the Arc de Triomphe
A single day walking the grand axis of Paris, from the island where the city was born, past the Louvre and through the Tuileries, up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainCórdoba: The Mezquita, the River and the Judería
An easy day across the old heart of Córdoba — a great mosque with a cathedral inside it, a Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir, a medieval Jewish quarter, a royal fortress and the flower-filled patios of San Basilio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Andrew Colin · CC BY 2.0City walk United KingdomEdinburgh: The Royal Mile and Arthur's Seat
One day from the castle on its volcanic rock, straight down the Royal Mile to Holyrood, then up an extinct volcano for the whole city at your feet.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Canaan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainGaudí to the Gothic Quarter: A Barcelona Day on Foot
One easy day walking the length of Barcelona — from the rising towers of the Sagrada Família down the Modernista boulevards to the medieval lanes of the Barri Gòtic.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jebulon · CC0City walk SpainGranada on Foot: the Alhambra, the Albaicín and Sacromonte
One full day walking from the Nasrid palaces and the Generalife gardens down into the whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín, ending with sunset at San Nicolás and the cave quarter of Sacromonte.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arash Hashemi · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk IsraelHaifa: The Baháʼí Terraces, the German Colony and Wadi Nisnas
One downhill day across Mount Carmel — nineteen garden terraces, a golden shrine, a Templer boulevard, an Arab market quarter, and a cable car back to the sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Asaf T. · Public domainCity walk IsraelHerodium: Herod's Cone-Shaped Palace-Fortress
A single day at the mountain Herod the Great raised for himself in the desert — the climb up the artificial cone, the round towers, the theatre with its royal box, the Bar Kokhba tunnels and the tomb.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Nickaura (Nick Sevarg) · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk JapanHida-Takayama: Old Town, Morning Markets and the Higashiyama Course
A day through a mountain town the modern world mostly passed by — dark wooden merchant streets, riverside markets at dawn, a shogun's government house, and a temple walk into the hills.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Nikos Kitsakis · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk JapanHimeji Castle: the White Heron and its garden
A gentle half-day around Japan's finest original castle — the straight approach, the great white keep, the defensive maze, Princess Sen's corridor, and the walled garden next door.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Edmund Gall · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelJerusalem: A Walk Through the Old City's Four Quarters
One day on foot through a single square kilometre that is holy to half the world — the Armenian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian Quarters, the Western Wall, the Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Fg2 · Public domainCity walk JapanKamakura: The Great Buddha and the Daibutsu Hiking Trail
A day that starts at Japan's most famous bronze Buddha, climbs a wooded ridge trail behind the town, and comes down at a money-washing cave shrine and the old capital's greatest shrine.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jordy Meow · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk JapanKyoto Higashiyama: Kiyomizu-dera to the Philosopher's Path
The classic day through old Kyoto — hillside temples, preserved stone lanes, a geisha district and a canal-side walk under the cherry trees.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Aldg692VX · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceLyon on Foot: Renaissance Traboules to the Silk Weavers' Hill
One day across two hills and a peninsula — the Renaissance lanes of Vieux Lyon, Roman Fourvière, and the workshops of Croix-Rousse.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zarateman · CC0City walk SpainMadrid Historic Walk: From the Royal Palace to the Retiro
One easy day on foot across the old center of the Spanish capital — royal palace, arcaded squares, a literary quarter, the Prado, and a park that used to belong to kings.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Emilio García from Parla, Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelMahane Yehuda and Nachlaot: The Shuk by Day and by Night
Jerusalem's market at full volume, the courtyard lanes of Nachlaot behind it, and the shutter portraits that only appear after closing time.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Dansnguyen · CC0City walk USAManhattan on Foot: The High Line to the Brooklyn Bridge
One long, flat day across the best of downtown — an elevated park on an old freight line, Village squares, cast-iron SoHo, and a walk over the East River into DUMBO.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Amaustan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceMont-Saint-Michel — Up Through the Village to the Abbey
A short but steep climb through a walled medieval island town, up the Grande Rue and the ramparts to the great abbey crowning the rock, ringed by one of Europe's biggest tidal bays.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chris Litherland · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk USANew Orleans: The French Quarter and the Garden District
A day on foot through the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, then a streetcar ride to the mansions and above-ground tombs of the Garden District.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceNice: The Promenade and the Old Town
A single easy day on foot along the seafront and through the sunlit lanes of Vieux Nice, from the Promenade des Anglais to a Russian cathedral.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: CarmelH1 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelNimrod Fortress: A Muslim Stronghold on the Slopes of Hermon
A walk through the largest medieval fortress in Israel — the keep, a hidden staircase down to a secret cistern, the great towers and their Arabic inscriptions, strung along a knife-edge ridge with the Hula Valley spread out below.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: israeltourism from Israel · CC BY 2.0City walk IsraelOld City of Acre: Crusaders, Khans and the Sea Walls
One easy day inside a walled port city where a Crusader fortress hides underground beneath an Ottoman capital, ringed by sea walls that stopped Napoleon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: User Gjm130 on en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaOld Montreal on Foot: From Place d'Armes to the Clock Tower
A compact half-day through the city's founding streets: the Notre-Dame Basilica, the ruins under Pointe-à-Callière, cobbled Rue Saint-Paul, Place Jacques-Cartier, the sailors' chapel and the river at the Old Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Israel_photo_gallery · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk IsraelOld Nazareth on Foot: Basilica, Souk and the Living Village
A gentle day threading the Old City — from the vast Basilica of the Annunciation through the covered souk to the recreated first-century village on the hillside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Xavier Fournier-Blais · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CanadaOld Quebec on Foot: The Walls, the Château and the Lower Town
A five-kilometre loop through the only walled city north of Mexico: along the ramparts, across the Château Frontenac's terrace, down the Breakneck Stairs to Place Royale, and back up the hill.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Akonnchiroll · CC0City walk JapanOld Tokyo on Foot: Asakusa Temples to Ueno Park
A single easy day linking Tokyo's oldest temple to its grandest park — from the lanterns of Sensō-ji through kitchen-town backstreets to the museums and cherry trees of Ueno.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arne Müseler · CC BY-SA 3.0 deCity walk ItalyPisa & Lucca: Two Tuscan Towns in a Day
The Leaning Tower and its marble square in Pisa, then a short train ride to Lucca to walk the Renaissance walls, the oval piazza and a tower crowned with oak trees.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyPompeii & Vesuvius: The Buried City and the Volcano That Buried It
A single big day that pairs the excavated streets of Pompeii — Forum, House of the Faun, Villa of the Mysteries, the casts of the dead — with the crater rim of the volcano responsible.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Moyan Brenn from Italy · CC BY 2.0City walk Czech RepublicPrague on Foot: Old Town Square to Prague Castle
The classic royal route across the Vltava — from the Astronomical Clock over Charles Bridge and up through the Lesser Town to the castle and St Vitus Cathedral.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Tamarah · CC BY-SA 2.5City walk IsraelQumran: The Settlement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A single day on the marl plateau above the Dead Sea, where the caves gave up the Dead Sea Scrolls — the ruined settlement, the ritual baths, the scriptorium, the water system and the long argument over who lived here.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: FeaturedPics · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyRome Historic Center: Ancient Rome to the Baroque Heart
A single unforgettable day on foot, from the Colosseum through the Forum to the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and Piazza Navona.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chmee2 · CC BY 3.0City walk IsraelRosh HaNikra: The Grottoes at the End of the Country
A short, easy visit at Israel's northwestern corner — the steepest cable car in the world down a white chalk cliff, sea-carved grottoes, and a Mandate-era railway tunnel that stops at the Lebanese border.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USASan Francisco Waterfront: Fisherman's Wharf to the Golden Gate
A day along the northern shore — wharf, Embarcadero, one absurd crooked block, and then the long approach to the bridge and a walk across it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 13.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ingo Mehling · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk SpainSeville Historic Walk: Cathedral, Alcázar and Triana
An easy day across the old town of Andalusia's capital — the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, a Mudéjar royal palace, a whitewashed former Jewish quarter, and the river crossing to Triana.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zairon · CC BY 4.0City walk ItalySiena on Foot: The Campo, the Duomo and the Contrade
One easy day through the medieval heart of Siena, from the shell-shaped Piazza del Campo up to the striped cathedral and out into the lanes of the contrade.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Elizaveta Butryn · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceStrasbourg: A Day on the Grande Île
An easy day on foot around the island heart of Strasbourg — from the great sandstone cathedral to the half-timbered canals of La Petite France.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Nick Ang · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk AustraliaSydney's Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk
About six kilometres of clifftop path linking Sydney's most famous beaches — Bondi, Tamarama, Bronte, Clovelly and Coogee — past ocean pools, a cliffside cemetery and sandstone headlands the whole way.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Ynhockey · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelTel Aviv & Jaffa: From the Old Port to the White City
A single day on foot from ancient Jaffa north along the beach promenade through Neve Tzedek, Bauhaus boulevards and the Carmel Market to the Tel Aviv Port.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Euphoria42 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USAThe Chicago Loop: A Day Inside American Architecture
One day on foot through Chicago's central business district — Millennium Park, the Riverwalk, the Skydeck and the Art Institute, with the skyline overhead the whole way.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceThe Cité de Carcassonne: Double Ramparts and a Contested Restoration
A day inside the most famous walled town in France — 52 towers, the Château Comtal, and an argument about what 'medieval' means.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chief Photographer's Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent · Public domainCity walk FranceThe D-Day Beaches: Omaha to Utah
A day along the Calvados coast, from Omaha Beach and the American cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer to Pointe du Hoc, Arromanches and Utah Beach.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Bönisch · CC BY-SA 2.0 deCity walk ItalyThe Sassi of Matera — Cave City on the Ravine
A day on foot through the two cave districts of Matera — Sasso Barisano and Sasso Caveoso — their rock churches and cave houses, ending at the viewpoint across the Murgia ravine.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Dmitry Dzhus from London · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainToledo: The City of Three Cultures on Foot
A day inside the walls of the city where Christians, Muslims and Jews built side by side — from the Bisagra gate to the cathedral, two medieval synagogues, and the Tagus gorge.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Boris Dzhingarov · CC BY 2.0City walk SpainValencia: Old Town to the City of Arts and Sciences
An easy day across Valencia — a Gothic cathedral that guards a cup venerated as the Holy Grail, a great medieval city gate, a modernista market and silk exchange, a park in an old riverbed, and Calatrava's white City of Arts and Sciences.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hoppend · CC0City walk ItalyVerona Historic Walk: The Arena, Piazza delle Erbe and the Adige
An easy day on foot through the compact old city of Verona — a Roman amphitheatre still used for opera, medieval market squares, the tombs and castle of the Scaliger lords, and the river bend crossed by the oldest bridge in town.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: MARELBU · CC BY 3.0City walk CanadaVictoria in a day from Vancouver
British Columbia's capital as a long day trip: the ferry through the Gulf Islands, Butchart Gardens, and a walk around the Inner Harbour from the Parliament Buildings and the Empress to the Royal BC Museum and Canada's oldest Chinatown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Matti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk USAWashington, D.C.: The National Mall on Foot
One free-flowing day across America's front lawn, from the Lincoln Memorial past the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian to the Capitol and a view of the White House.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: ThatsTheBoss · CC0City walk United KingdomWestminster to the Tower: A London City Walk
A single easy day on foot along the Thames, from Big Ben and Whitehall through Trafalgar Square to St Paul's and the Tower of London.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Almog · Public domainCity walk IsraelZippori: Mosaics of the Roman Galilee
An easy day among the finest mosaic floors in Israel — the 'Mona Lisa of the Galilee', the Nile House, a Roman theatre, a Crusader keep and a water system cut through solid rock.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: OT Avignon · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceAvignon & the Pont du Gard: Popes, a Broken Bridge and a Roman Aqueduct
One day that runs from the largest Gothic palace in Europe to the best-preserved Roman aqueduct bridge anywhere — about 6 km on foot inside Avignon, plus a short hop out to the Gard.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Diliff · CC BY 2.5City walk United KingdomBath: A Georgian Walk, From Roman Spring to Royal Crescent
One easy day through a honey-coloured city — the Roman Baths, the abbey, the great Georgian set pieces, and a bridge with shops all the way across.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No real name given · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaEnglish Bay to Kits Beach: Vancouver's Beach Walk
A summer walk from the laughing bronze figures at English Bay along Sunset Beach, over the Art Deco Burrard Bridge and through the museums of Vanier Park to Kitsilano Beach and the longest outdoor pool in North America.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Gary Campbell-Hall · CC BY 2.0City walk ItalyFlorence Historic Center: The Renaissance on Foot
One compact day from Brunelleschi's dome across the Arno to the Oltrarno, taking in the Baptistery, the Uffizi and the Ponte Vecchio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Lee Coursey from Decatur, GA · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaGastown to Chinatown: Vancouver's Oldest Streets
A short, dense walk from the white sails of Canada Place through the cobbled saloon town where Vancouver began, past the steam clock and Maple Tree Square, into Canada's largest Chinatown and a Ming-style garden built by craftsmen from Suzhou.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaGranville Island and False Creek by Ferry and Foot
Cross False Creek on a bathtub-sized ferry to Granville Island's public market and working studios, then walk the south-shore seawall past the Olympic Village to the geodesic dome of Science World.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Balon Greyjoy · CC0City walk JapanHiroshima: Peace Memorial Park to Miyajima
A day in two halves — the memorial park and museum in central Hiroshima in the morning, then a short ferry to the island of Itsukushima and its shrine in the afternoon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: 金沢市 · CC BY 2.1 jpCity walk JapanKanazawa: Garden, Castle, Samurai and Geisha Districts
One easy day across the old castle town of the Maeda lords — a famous strolling garden, the castle it once belonged to, two preserved quarters and a covered market.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk CanadaKensington, Chinatown and Queen West
An afternoon through downtown Toronto's most layered neighbourhoods: Gehry's AGO, Chinatown on Spadina, the lanes of Kensington Market, Graffiti Alley, Queen Street West and sunset in Trinity Bellwoods.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Suavemarimagno · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk FranceLoire Châteaux Circuit: Chambord, Chenonceau, Amboise & Blois
Four of the Loire's greatest châteaux in one day — a driving circuit with roughly 8 km of walking in the grounds, not a continuous trail.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelMount Herzl and Yad Vashem
A day on the western ridge of Jerusalem: Israel's national cemetery, and the Holocaust memorial that shares the hill with it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Feri88 · CC BY 3.0City walk JapanNara Park: Kōfuku-ji to Naramachi
Japan's first permanent capital in a single day — a five-storied pagoda, hundreds of free-roaming deer, the Great Buddha in the world's great wooden hall, a lantern-lined shrine approach and an Edo-era merchant quarter.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jpatokal · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk JapanNikkō: Shrines of the Shogun and the Kegon Falls
A day pairing Japan's most ornate shrine complex — Ieyasu's mausoleum, the sleeping cat, the three wise monkeys — with a climb into the mountains to a 97-metre waterfall and a crater lake.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Geo Swan stitched by Marku1988 This image was created with Hugin. · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk CanadaOld Town Toronto: Union Station to the Distillery District
Toronto's founding blocks on foot: Union Station's Great Hall, the Gooderham Flatiron, St. James Cathedral, St. Lawrence Market and the Victorian whisky town of the Distillery District.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: 663highland · CC BY 2.5City walk JapanOsaka: The Castle, Kuromon Market and Dōtonbori
A day across Osaka's south side — a shogun's castle in its moated park, a covered food market, an old amusement district under a steel tower, and the neon canal that never turns off.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyPalermo Historic Walk: Arab-Norman Palaces and Street Markets
An easy day on foot through the layered heart of Sicily's capital — from the Baroque crossroads at Quattro Canti to golden Norman mosaics, two shouting street markets and Italy's largest opera house.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Guillaume Cattiaux · CC BY-SA 2.0City walk CanadaThe Citadelle and the Plains of Abraham: Where Quebec Changed Hands
From the Château Frontenac along the cliff on the Governors' Promenade, into the star-shaped Citadelle, across the battlefield of 1759 and back down Grande Allée to the Parliament Building.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Quercus acuta · CC0City walk JapanThe Hakone Loop: switchback railway, volcano and the lake torii
Japan's most enjoyable day of public transport — a switchbacking mountain railway, a cable car, a ropeway over a steaming volcanic valley, a pirate ship across a caldera lake, and a red torii standing in the water with Fuji behind it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainCity walk CanadaThe Plateau and Mile End: Staircases, Smoked Meat and the Bagel Duel
An eating walk through Montreal's most lived-in neighbourhoods: a Victorian square, Parc La Fontaine, streets of twisting outdoor staircases, a smoked-meat sandwich on the Main and a head-to-head of the city's two great bagel bakeries.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Mark Bradshaw · CC BY 3.0City walk CanadaToronto Waterfront: Harbourfront to Sherbourne Common
A flat four-kilometre walk along Queens Quay through the parks that won Toronto its lakeshore back: a garden built as a Bach suite, umbrella beaches, Harbourfront Centre and a glowing water channel at the end.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.9 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Matthias Süßen · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyVenice on Foot: San Marco, Rialto and the Ghetto
A single day walking north through Venice — from the basilica and the Doge's Palace over the Rialto to the quiet canals of Cannaregio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy