One day in Providence, Rhode Island

A day through Providence’s best-known sights that lie close together: Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence, Grace Church, Waterplace Park, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, First Baptist Church in America and Roger Williams National Memorial. 6 stops, about 1.2 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, ProvidenceCathedral · On the map
  2. Grace ChurchTemple or shrine · 0.2 mi on from Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence · On the map
  3. Waterplace ParkPark · 0.3 mi on from Grace Church · On the map
  4. Rhode Island School of Design MuseumMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Waterplace Park · On the map
  5. First Baptist Church in AmericaTemple or shrine · 0.1 mi on from Rhode Island School of Design Museum · On the map
  6. Roger Williams National MemorialMonument · 0.3 mi on from First Baptist Church in America · On the map

6 stops, 1.6 mi on foot along the streets: about 31 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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