One day in Alcalá de Henares, Spain

A day through Alcalá de Henares’s best-known sights that lie close together: Complutum, Cathedral of los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de Henares, Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares, Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares, Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso and Palace of Laredo. 6 stops, about 2.8 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. ComplutumArchaeological site · On the map
  2. Cathedral of los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de HenaresCathedral · 1.5 km on from Complutum · On the map
  3. Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de HenaresMuseum · 0.1 km on from Cathedral of los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de Henares · On the map
  4. Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de HenaresPalace · 0.2 km on from Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares · On the map
  5. Colegio Mayor de San IldefonsoMonument · 0.6 km on from Archbishop's Palace of Alcalá de Henares · On the map
  6. Palace of LaredoPalace · 0.5 km on from Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso · On the map

6 stops, 3.7 km on foot along the streets: about 45 min of walking.

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Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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