One day in Sāmarrā’, Iraq

A day through Sāmarrā’’s best-known sights that lie close together: Samarra, Al-Askari Shrine, Great Mosque of Samarra and Malwiya. 4 stops, about 2.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. SamarraArchaeological site · On the map
  2. Al-Askari ShrineMosque · 1.2 km on from Samarra · On the map
  3. Great Mosque of SamarraMosque · 1 km on from Al-Askari Shrine · On the map
  4. MalwiyaTower · 0.1 km on from Great Mosque of Samarra · On the map

4 stops, 3.1 km on foot along the streets: about 37 min of walking.

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Photo credits

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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