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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Just watch out for the used hypodermic needles and the human excrement.
The cherry trees were a gift from the Japanese government. some fool wanted to chop them all down and burn them after Pearl Harbor. Luckily Eleanor Roosevelt put a quick end to that nonsense.
“How could Venice not be on that list?”
It’s walkable beautiful cities.
“San Francisco”
Many of the streets are steeply sloped and are hard to walk.
It has beautiful parts - St. Johns Woods, Pacific Heights.
“Washington DC”
Many of the suburban areas are beautiful around the last week of April and the first 10 days of May when the azaleas are in bloom.
Early April is a good time to walk around Capitol Hill and Georgetown.
For a somewhat shorter period, Providence, RI has beautiful crab apple(?) trees. Unlike DC cherry trees, the trees stay beautiful for about a week.
Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC are very nice cities to walk in.
As a place to live, the Boston area is great if you earn big money and don’t mind cold and wet. Salem is well worth a visit. My sister-in-law liked Marblehead, but I’ve never been there.
Old Town Alexandria, VA is well-worth a visit.
DC, Frisco, Boston, Paris? Only in the daylight.
Venice is flat, beautiful, relatively small and incredibly beautiful. Very walkable. lots of bridges and pedestrian streets no cars.
A blue sky contrasts nicely with the almost white cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossoms don’t stay on the trees for long, and a rainstorm can knock them off the trees.
There is a neighborhood called Kenwood which has streets lined with cherry trees. I have no idea if they bloom at the same time as the trees on the Mall.
Google Maps/Streetview is a good way to see if a place is worth your time and money.
Santa Fe, NM.
> San Francisco, California
When walking, watch where you step.
San Francisco? We drove through there to see an exhibit at the deYoung Museum last year and the poop was visible from the car windows. I can’t walk in my backyard without discovering dog poop with my shoes and I don’t want to try my luck with people poop.
No Rome or Venice?
Crappy list.
Clickbait....you should see #13! How is San Fran.in the list? Walkable...yeah, with thick galoshes...
Rome is too big.
Venice is difficult because it is all small alleys.
I just left Florence this morning.
On the train right now to Naples and car to Sorrento.
Florence is very compact.
It is pretty much all level except the hill up to Piazza Michaelangelo.
The only thing is that you need some thick soled boots when it rains.
The stones on the street are so worn in spots that there are puddles 1-2” deep when it rains like yesterday.
Ladies, leave your heels at home.
There are also spaces in between those stones that are as much as 1” wide.
We stayed right in the center of Florence in an apartment.
Also, it is almost impossible to get a cab except in front of the train station.
You have to call at least two hours ahead.
So, be prepared to walk back to the train station.
So, the best luggage is a rolling carry on bag and a backpack.
Better yet just the backpack.
Caio
Most of the cities on this
Santa Fe is nice, but the most interesting area only extends a couple of blocks or so in any direction from the town square. If you love Mexican food, it’s Heaven. I live in Denver, and always wondered where our local style of Mexican food (everything smothered with green or red chili, or both) comes from, because I’ve always been disappointed in Mexican food in places like California, Texas, and even Arizona by comparison. After visiting Santa Fe I realized that our style is New Mexican style. It’s pretty much identical to what we have.
By the way, there was also an amazing Christmas store there when I visited. It was about a block off the square and had to be the biggest one I’ve ever seen.
Khartoum is a gas. Mogadiscu is also nice. Rosario is fun. Khabarovsk is healthy. Tangiers is available. Oagadougou has available housing. La Paz has clean streets. Chicago is gang free. Portland has roses. Seattle has rain. Watts has a history. Memphis is a scream.
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