Posted on 10/03/2024 7:29:43 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
If you spend most of your life driving or taking public transportation from point A to point B, there's nothing quite like breaking from planes, trains, and automobiles and exploring a destination on foot. Doing so allows you to slow down and savor all the sites around you, no parking necessary. With that in mind, we have rounded up 12 of the most beautiful walkable cities around the world (with a few in the U.S.) to inspire your future travel plans.
There are certainly many benefits to exploring with your own two feet, and we give all of the cities below a super high walkability score. Whether you are looking for a perfect weekend adventure or planning a girls' trip, we have plenty of destinations to add to your list (or even to travel back to), some even with beaches to walk along in addition to city centers full of historic streets and landmarks. Time to select a destination, book a beautiful luxury hotel, and pack your walking shoes!
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The only one I've been to was Washington DC. And that was in the January 1993 before Bush 41 left left office.
Florence, Italy
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Paris, France
Boston, Massachusetts
Edinburgh, Scotland
Zurich, Switzerland
Porto, Portugal
Washington, DC
San Francisco, California
Tallinn, Estonia
Sydney, Australia
Amsterdam, Netherlands
How could Venice not be on that list?
And some of these are beautiful but not that easy to just walk around.
Zurich, Switzerland? Why not Zermatt, Switzerland?
No city is walkable minus public safety.
Disagree with several. DC. Paris. San Fran.Tallin. Sydney... Especially DC and San Fran.
Replace with... Prague. Vienna. Marseilles. Venice, Chania
These cities are no longer beautiful and walkable and these lists with their now lost cities are no longer likeable.
You can walk all over SF in a weekend. It’s actually quite amazing to do.
Flint Michigan.
I would add Tokyo, Kyoto and Kathmandu.
The Washington Mall is magnificent. On a cool spring day during cherry blossom time it is a wonder to be seen. Depending on in which direction one goes from the mall, less than a mile it can be a hell hole of crime and danger.
I’ve been to Paris, Boston, Washington D.C, and San Francisco.
All beautiful, Paris probably the most gorgeous.
But today you can’t walk around these cities because stores are closing and a bunch of addicts live on the streets.
My world-traveling daughter was in Australia last year and thought Melbourne, not Sydney, was the most beautiful city she’d ever seen.
Paris and Frisco are both $**tholes.
Not a serious list without Rome.
I’ve been to 8 of those, but my comment is that the list has to be a joke because San Francisco these days isn’t walkable for three reasons. It’s nasty, it isn’t safe, and it’s steep. The last one has always been true, the first two have developed since my last (in both senses) visit.
I did that once with one of my cousins when we were both pretty young - probably around 1977. It was still pretty safe back then and we didn't have to watch where our feet were going. We spent a day wandering around.
Paris and Amsterdam in 1973 for me, plus San Francisco a few times in the 70s and 80s.
Portland, OR used to be a great city to walk in, probably not now.
Edinburgh is great.
Zermatt’s more a town than a city.
Any tips for visiting Tokyo this Winter?
>> San Francisco, California
...*used* to be walkable. Attended a trade show in SF every year for about 20 years; Mrs. Tick and I would often take BART or CalTrain from the airport to the city and not even rent a car.
Have no desire to go back there, now that it’s a progressive hellhole. It always was progressive, but formerly not a hellhole.
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