Montpellier is officially one of the least pedestrian-friendly cities in France

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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 and least easy to discover 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.Least Walkable Cities.

The study reveals that Montpellier is one of the least walkable cities in France, where it takes at least 3 hours of walking to explore key tourist sites in a day. You need to cover more than 13 km and nearly 18,000 steps to visit the must-sees. With these numbers dragging it down, Montpellier ranks in the not-so-glorious top 3 just ahead of Clermond-Ferrand and behind Aix-en-Provence and the untouchable Marseille. On the flip side, the five cities that the study revealed as the most pedestrian-friendly are in order Dijon, Nîmes, Rennes, Nantes and Grenoble, receiving praise from the jury (or tourists)!

Methodology"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."