One day in Halifax, Nova Scotia
A day through Halifax’s best-known sights that lie close together: St. Mary's Basilica, HMCS Sackville, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, St. Paul's Church and Citadel Hill. 6 stops, about 1.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- St. Mary's BasilicaCathedral · On the map
- HMCS SackvilleMuseum · 0.5 km on from St. Mary's Basilica · On the map
- Maritime Museum of the AtlanticMuseum · 0.1 km on from HMCS Sackville · On the map
- Art Gallery of Nova ScotiaMuseum · 0.1 km on from Maritime Museum of the Atlantic · On the map
- St. Paul's ChurchTemple or shrine · 0.2 km on from Art Gallery of Nova Scotia · On the map
- Citadel HillMuseum · 0.4 km on from St. Paul's Church · On the map
6 stops, 2 km on foot along the streets: about 28 min of walking.
More for Halifax
- Things to do in Halifax, Nova Scotia · 18 places to see, led by St. Mary's Basilica and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Photo credits
- St. Mary's Basilica: baekken, CC BY 2.0
- HMCS Sackville: Bryson109, Public domain
- Maritime Museum of the Atlantic: Letterofmarque, CC BY 3.0
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia: Skeezix1000, CC BY-SA 3.0
- St. Paul's Church: Wladyslaw, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Citadel Hill: Moneywagon, CC BY-SA 3.0
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.