Edinburgh

One day in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

A day through Edinburgh’s best-known sights that lie close together: National Museum of Scotland, St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle, Scottish National Gallery, Scott Monument and Scottish National Portrait Gallery. 6 stops, about 1.2 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. National Museum of ScotlandMuseum · On the map
  2. St Giles' CathedralCathedral · 0.2 mi on from National Museum of Scotland · On the map
  3. Edinburgh CastleMuseum · 0.4 mi on from St Giles' Cathedral · On the map
  4. Scottish National GalleryMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Edinburgh Castle · On the map
  5. Scott MonumentMonument · 0.1 mi on from Scottish National Gallery · On the map
  6. Scottish National Portrait GalleryMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Scott Monument · On the map

6 stops, about 1.2 mi between them in straight lines.

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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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