One day in Bellinzona, Switzerland

A day through Bellinzona’s best-known sights that lie close together: Palazzo Franscini, Three Castles of Bellinzona, Palazzo delle Orsoline and Museo Villa dei Cedri. 4 stops, about 1.7 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Palazzo FransciniPalace · On the map
  2. Three Castles of BellinzonaArchaeological site · 0.8 km on from Palazzo Franscini · On the map
  3. Palazzo delle OrsolinePalace · 0.2 km on from Three Castles of Bellinzona · On the map
  4. Museo Villa dei CedriMuseum · 0.8 km on from Palazzo delle Orsoline · On the map

4 stops, about 1.7 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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