Basel
One day in Basel, Switzerland
A day through Basel’s best-known sights that lie close together: Basel Zoo, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection, Basel Minster and Museum Tinguely. 6 stops, about 3.2 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Basel ZooZoo or aquarium · On the map

- Kunsthalle BaselMuseum · 1.2 km on from Basel Zoo · On the map

- Kunstmuseum BaselMuseum · 0.3 km on from Kunsthalle Basel · On the map

- Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig CollectionMuseum · 0.1 km on from Kunstmuseum Basel · On the map

- Basel MinsterCathedral · 0.2 km on from Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection · On the map

- Museum TinguelyMuseum · 1.5 km on from Basel Minster · On the map

6 stops, about 3.2 km between them in straight lines.
More for Basel
- Things to do in Basel, Switzerland · 40 places to see, led by Kunstmuseum Basel and Basel Minster
Day trips from Basel
- Konstanz121 km awayprehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps6 stops in a day, starting at Archaeological State Museum of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Strasbourg115 km awayCathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg6 stops in a day, starting at Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg
- Lausanne136 km awayLavaux6 stops in a day, starting at Olympic Museum
- Lahr90 km awayEuropa-Park6 stops in a day, starting at Europa-Park
Photo credits
- Basel Zoo: TeamBurton, Public domain
- Kunsthalle Basel: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kunstmuseum Basel: Wladyslaw Sojka, FAL
- Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection: Basmus, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Basel Minster: Wladyslaw Sojka, FAL
- Museum Tinguely: Alan Philip Müller, CC BY 2.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
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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