One day in Lagos, Nigeria

A day through Lagos’s best-known sights that lie close together: Nigerian National Museum, Lagos, Tafawa Balewa Square, Freedom Park, Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lagos, Lagos Central Mosque and Shitta-Bey Mosque. 6 stops, about 2.7 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Nigerian National Museum, LagosMuseum · On the map
  2. Tafawa Balewa SquareMonument · 0.5 km on from Nigerian National Museum, Lagos · On the map
  3. Freedom ParkPark · 0.6 km on from Tafawa Balewa Square · On the map
  4. Cathedral of the Holy Cross, LagosCathedral · 0.1 km on from Freedom Park · On the map
  5. Lagos Central MosqueMosque · 1.2 km on from Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lagos · On the map
  6. Shitta-Bey MosqueMosque · 0.2 km on from Lagos Central Mosque · On the map

6 stops, 4.1 km on foot along the streets: about 52 min of walking.

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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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