One day in Göttingen, Germany

A day through Göttingen’s best-known sights that lie close together: Old Botanical Garden of Göttingen University, Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Gänseliesel-Brunnen Göttingen, Göttingen Museum of Zoology and Forum Wissen. 5 stops, about 1.6 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Old Botanical Garden of Göttingen UniversityGarden · On the map
  2. Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August University GöttingenMuseum · 0.5 km on from Old Botanical Garden of Göttingen University · On the map
  3. Gänseliesel-Brunnen GöttingenMonument · 0.5 km on from Ethnological Collection of the Georg-August University Göttingen · On the map
  4. Göttingen Museum of ZoologyMuseum · 0.6 km on from Gänseliesel-Brunnen Göttingen · On the map
  5. Forum WissenMuseum · Next to Göttingen Museum of Zoology · On the map

5 stops, about 1.6 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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