One day in Shumen, Bulgaria

A day through Shumen’s best-known sights that lie close together: Shumen Fortress, Tombul Mosque (Shumen), Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria and Shumen History museum. 4 stops, about 3.6 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Shumen FortressMuseum · On the map
  2. Tombul Mosque (Shumen)Mosque · 1.5 km on from Shumen Fortress · On the map
  3. Monument to 1300 Years of BulgariaMonument · 1.3 km on from Tombul Mosque (Shumen) · On the map
  4. Shumen History museumMuseum · 0.9 km on from Monument to 1300 Years of Bulgaria · On the map

4 stops, 7.8 km on foot along the streets: about 1 h 44 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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