One day in Birmingham, Alabama, United States

A day through Birmingham, Alabama’s best-known sights that lie close together: Sloss Furnaces, Cathedral of Saint Paul, Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham Museum of Art, 16th Street Baptist Church and Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument. 6 stops, about 1.9 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Sloss FurnacesMuseum · On the map
  2. Cathedral of Saint PaulCathedral · 0.9 mi on from Sloss Furnaces · On the map
  3. Cathedral Church of the AdventCathedral · 0.2 mi on from Cathedral of Saint Paul · On the map
  4. Birmingham Museum of ArtMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Cathedral Church of the Advent · On the map
  5. 16th Street Baptist ChurchTemple or shrine · 0.5 mi on from Birmingham Museum of Art · On the map
  6. Birmingham Civil Rights National MonumentMonument · 0.1 mi on from 16th Street Baptist Church · On the map

6 stops, 3 mi on foot along the streets: about 59 min of walking.

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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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