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Europe's Old Towns, measured.

Name: Europe's Old Towns, measured
Creator: Cobble Gobble
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

How many streets each Old Town has, how far it is to walk every one of them, and how long that takes at a stroll. Counted street by street, not taken from a guidebook.

The longest walk is Budapest: 174 streets, 54.6 km to walk them all, about 15.5 hours.
The shortest is Buxtehude: 31 streets, 5.2 km, about 1.5 hours.
The most stairs for its size: Dubrovnik, where 50 of 82 streets include a stretch of steps.

#	Old Town	Country	Streets	km on foot	Hours	Streets with steps
1	Palma	Spain	319	44.9	13	22
2	Toledo	Spain	318	40.4	11.5	66
3	Lisbon	Portugal	266	41.6	12	74
4	Florence	Italy	235	38.9	11	4
5	Verona	Italy	235	32.7	9.5	6
6	Lyon	France	234	44.6	12.5	21
7	Siena	Italy	223	40.5	11.5	32
8	Barcelona	Spain	222	28.3	8	1
9	Vienna	Austria	219	48.8	14	8
10	Nuremberg	Germany	217	45.2	13	15
11	Lucca	Italy	217	38.7	11	0
12	Venice	Italy	217	22.3	6.5	15
13	Seville	Spain	200	33.9	9.5	5
14	Ghent	Belgium	199	34.0	9.5	9
15	Regensburg	Germany	196	37.2	10.5	4
16	York	United Kingdom	193	33.3	9.5	6
17	Valencia	Spain	188	20.2	6	1
18	Dublin	Ireland	185	43.0	12.5	10
19	Budapest	Hungary	174	54.6	15.5	17
20	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	170	31.0	9	42
21	Bologna	Italy	167	37.9	11	0
22	Porto	Portugal	160	28.8	8	21
23	Strasbourg	France	157	28.1	8	2
24	Amsterdam	Netherlands	156	31.9	9	5
25	Paris	France	143	35.2	10	3
26	Santiago de Compostela	Spain	135	23.9	7	13
27	Munich	Germany	132	31.4	9	5
28	Bruges	Belgium	129	22.9	6.5	1
29	Cologne	Germany	124	29.2	8.5	3
30	Bamberg	Germany	124	27.6	8	5
31	Copenhagen	Denmark	122	30.1	8.5	3
32	Athens	Greece	122	21.4	6	3
33	Zurich	Switzerland	112	20.1	5.5	18
34	Bath	United Kingdom	110	16.8	5	3
35	Prague	Czechia	109	27.3	8	4
36	Colmar	France	108	22.0	6.5	0
37	Berlin	Germany	107	39.5	11.5	10
38	Ljubljana	Slovenia	106	26.7	7.5	12
39	Hamburg	Germany	103	23.8	7	7
40	Stockholm	Sweden	101	18.3	5	8
41	Salzburg	Austria	98	27.1	7.5	10
42	Leuven	Belgium	97	22.9	6.5	6
43	Bern	Switzerland	94	21.1	6	10
44	Lübeck	Germany	93	23.0	6.5	2
45	Girona	Spain	91	12.2	3.5	25
46	Heidelberg	Germany	84	21.9	6.5	8
47	Dubrovnik	Croatia	82	10.2	3	50
48	Passau	Germany	81	18.3	5	13
49	Rothenburg ob der Tauber	Germany	74	15.1	4.5	4
50	Split	Croatia	72	8.5	2.5	8
51	Landshut	Germany	71	16.4	4.5	4
52	Dinkelsbühl	Germany	70	15.4	4.5	8
53	Riga	Latvia	67	14.0	4	3
54	Tallinn	Estonia	66	14.0	4	3
55	Wasserburg am Inn	Germany	61	14.5	4	3
56	Vilnius	Lithuania	56	17.5	5	0
57	Kraków	Poland	43	18.2	5	4
58	Český Krumlov	Czechia	35	8.2	2.5	5
59	Třeboň	Czechia	31	8.3	2.5	0
60	Buxtehude	Germany	31	5.2	1.5	0
61	Pilsen	Czechia	22	7.4	2	1

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How it is measured

Old Town: The historic centre as the city defines it where it publishes a boundary (an Altstadt district, a walled ring), otherwise the core a visitor walks. Every boundary is drawn on its city page. A level is sized to be walked over a trip, so in the biggest cities it covers the core, not every street of a large historic district: the ranking compares walks, not city areas.
Streets: Every street, lane, square and footbridge inside that line, from OpenStreetMap.
km on foot: One route that walks every street at least once, doubling back where a dead end makes you. Longer than the streets laid end to end.
Hours: That route at 3.5 km/h, a stroll with stops for looking, rounded to the half hour.
Streets with steps: Streets that include a stretch mapped as steps. A dash means the level was built before steps were counted, not that there are none.
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