Sunny weather to visit Bordeaux on foot
As the summer holidays and the Olympics approach, there will be millions of tourists in France in the coming months. But which French cities are the easiest or most challenging to explore on foot for tourists? A new study, conducted by the language learning platform, Preply, analyzed the walking distance between the five most popular tourist attractions in each French city, using data from Tripadvisor and Google Maps, to identify the cities that are the mDedicated pedestrian lanes.
"To choose the list of cities to analyze, we looked at the largest population centers in France. In total, 25 cities were analyzed. From the list of cities, we used TripAdvisor to find the top five tourist attractions in each city, based on visitor ratings. For each city, each attraction was analyzed on Google Maps itinerary planner to find the fastest walking route to visit the five attractions. The distances and walking times were then recorded. To estimate the number of steps taken, we used a conversion rate of 1,315 steps per kilometer, based on an average step length of 76 cm".
The study reveals that Bordeaux is one of the least pedestrian-friendly cities in France, where it takes at least 3 hours of walking to discover the key tourist sites in one day. You need to cover 13 km and nearly 18,000 steps to visit the must-see attractions. With these figures that pull it down, Bordeaux ranks in the not-so-glorious top 5 just behind Clermond-Ferrand.
The top spots are taken by Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and Montpellier. Conversely, the five cities revealed by the study as the most pedestrian-friendly are Dijon, Nîmes, Rennes, Nantes, and Grenoble, which receive the jury's (or tourists') congratulations.Methodology