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.

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The route

  1. Basel ZooZoo or aquarium · On the map
  2. Kunsthalle BaselMuseum · 1.2 km on from Basel Zoo · On the map
  3. Kunstmuseum BaselMuseum · 0.3 km on from Kunsthalle Basel · On the map
  4. Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig CollectionMuseum · 0.1 km on from Kunstmuseum Basel · On the map
  5. Basel MinsterCathedral · 0.2 km on from Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection · On the map
  6. Museum TinguelyMuseum · 1.5 km on from Basel Minster · On the map

6 stops, about 3.2 km between them in straight lines.

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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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