Free Walking Tour Erfurt: Citadel, Bridge and Cathedral

A 4.6 km loop from the Petersberg Citadel to Luther's monastery, the inhabited Krämerbrücke and the cathedral hill, then back to where you started.

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Petersberg Citadel
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What This Erfurt Loop Covers

This free loop has 12 stops and starts and ends at the Petersberg Citadel: 4.6 km and 1 h 5 min of pure walking. With short looks it takes about two and a half hours; add the museums and it fills a day.

The Krämerbrücke, Fischmarkt, Domplatz and the interiors of Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severus Church are free; the Augustinian Monastery, Angermuseum and Natural History Museum Erfurt charge entry. The GPS route is free, the AI Tour Guide optional.

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The 12 stops along this route

  1. Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt, stop 1 on the self-guided walking tour
    1Petersberg Citadel
  2. Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt, stop 2 on the self-guided walking tour
    2Augustinian Monastery
  3. Angermuseum in Erfurt, stop 3 on the self-guided walking tour
    3Angermuseum
  4. Ägidienkirche Tower in Erfurt, stop 4 on the self-guided walking tour
    4Ägidienkirche Tower
  5. Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, stop 5 on the self-guided walking tour
    5Krämerbrücke
  6. Old Synagogue in Erfurt, stop 6 on the self-guided walking tour
    6Old Synagogue
  7. Fischmarkt in Erfurt, stop 7 on the self-guided walking tour
    7Fischmarkt
  8. Natural History Museum Erfurt, stop 8 on the self-guided walking tour
    8Natural History Museum Erfurt
  9. Domplatz in Erfurt, stop 9 on the self-guided walking tour
    9Domplatz
  10. Erfurt Cathedral, stop 10 on the self-guided walking tour
    10Erfurt Cathedral
  11. St. Severus Church in Erfurt, stop 11 on the self-guided walking tour
    11St. Severus Church
  12. Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße in Erfurt, stop 12 on the self-guided walking tour
    12Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße
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Your Erfurt Walking Tour, Stop by Stop from Petersberg to Andreasstraße

  1. 1

    Petersberg Citadel

    Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt, stop 1 on the self-guided walking tour

    You start on the Petersberg, the hill in the north-western part of the old town, inside one of the largest and best-preserved town fortresses in Europe. More than two kilometres of stone walls enclose 36 hectares. Work on the baroque citadel began in 1665, when Erfurt was governed by the Electorate of Mainz. The outdoor grounds are free and open around the clock, so you can walk the bastions whenever you like.

    The hill was holy ground before it was military ground: the citadel sits on the site of a medieval Benedictine monastery, and the oldest parts of the complex go back to the 12th century. After Mainz came Sweden, Prussia, Napoleon, the German Empire, the Nazis, the Soviet occupiers and East Germany, and every one of them used and reshaped the fortress. French troops held it from 1806 to 1814, which is why you will still hear the French name Citadelle Petersberg. Napoleon came to Erfurt several times, extended the works, and had a hidden trench dug to the smaller Cyriaksburg Citadel in the south-west of the city; parts of the Petersberg were damaged in a battle in 1813.

    The army only left in 1963. Since reunification in 1990 the citadel has been restored and opened as a historic site, the fortress bakery from 1832 is working again, and the former lower barracks now hold the archives of the Stasi Records Agency, a thread you pick up again at the end of the loop.

    Is it worth going inside? The exhibition in the commander's house charges admission, and the maze of underground passageways is open to visitors on the paid guided Horchgang tour. If fortresses are your thing, give it an hour; otherwise the walls and views of the grounds are enough. From the gate it is 1260 m, about 17 minutes, down through the Andreasviertel to the Augustinian Monastery.

    Local name
    Zitadelle Petersberg
    Hours
    Outdoor grounds freely accessible around the clock | visitor centre & exhibition: daily 10:00–18:00
    Price
    Outdoor grounds free | commander's house exhibition: 8 EUR adults, 4 EUR reduced | Horchgang tour: from 8 EUR / 10 EUR
  2. 2

    Augustinian Monastery

    Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt, stop 2 on the self-guided walking tour

    This 13th century friary and church, almost a hectare of courtyards and buildings, is where Martin Luther lived as a friar from 1505 to 1511. At its peak in the early 16th century about 74 ordained and 70 lay brothers lived here. The courtyards are free, and you see straight away that the complex mixes medieval and modern buildings.

    There is a reason for that mix. After the Reformation the local Lutheran congregation used the church from 1525; the city took over the site when the last friar died in 1556, it was secularised in 1559 and reconsecrated in 1854. In 1945 a British air raid destroyed parts of the complex and killed 267 people who had taken shelter here. Today it belongs to the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is still alive: a place of worship, a meeting and conference centre, simple lodging for travellers and retreats, and a concert venue with a Walcker organ built in 1938. In 2016 it was put forward with eleven other places for the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Luther Sites in Central Germany.

    For anyone interested in Luther or the Reformation, go in. The paid visit takes in the cloister, the chapter hall, Luther's cell and an exhibition with an audio guide. The public tour costs the same and suits you if you prefer a person to a headset.

    From the monastery it is 890 m, about 12 minutes, to the Angermuseum; on the way you pass the Stadtmuseum Erfurt.

    Local name
    Augustinerkloster Erfurt
    Hours
    Visit with audio guide: Mon–Fri 10:00–16:00, Sat 11:00–14:00, Sun & holidays 11:00–12:30 | public tour: daily 11:00
    Price
    Monastery courtyards free | monastery visit (cloister, chapter hall, Luther's cell, exhibition) incl. audio guide: 8.50 EUR adults, 4 EUR children (6-17 years) | public tour: 8.50 EUR adults, 4 EUR children
  3. 3

    Angermuseum

    Angermuseum in Erfurt, stop 3 on the self-guided walking tour

    The baroque building facing Anger square was not built for art. Between 1706 and 1711 the architect Johann Maximilian von Welsch designed it as Erfurt's public weighing house, where travelling merchants had their goods weighed to pay the city's customs duties. The style shows Franconian influence; look up at the gable triangle for St Martin, the city's patron saint. Anger means town common, which tells you what this square once was.

    The museum opened on 27 June 1886, the first municipal museum in the town, and at first used only the gallery on the first floor. It exists because of a condition: in 1883 the son of the painter Friedrich von Nerly gave his father's works to Erfurt on the understanding that the city would found a museum to show them. Nerly had moved to Venice in 1835 and from then on painted almost only watercolours and drawings of that city; more than 700 works from Italy are in the collection.

    What makes the museum unusual is who built it up. Unlike in Weimar and Gotha, where princes collected, here it was the city's wealthy and educated citizens, families like the Lucius and the bankers Stürcke. The collection grew around landscapes, portraits and still lifes from the 18th to the 20th century; from 1912 Edwin Redslob ran the house, later Walter Kaesbach.

    The museum charges admission and is worth an hour if you like painting; the Venice works are the reason to choose this over another museum. Then it is 480 m, about 6 minutes, to the Ägidienkirche.

    Hours
    Mon: Closed | Tue–Sun: 10:00–18:00
    Price
    Adults 6 EUR, reduced 4 EUR (free 1st Tuesday of month)
  4. 4

    Ägidienkirche Tower

    Ägidienkirche Tower in Erfurt, stop 4 on the self-guided walking tour

    St Giles' Church stands over the archway that forms the eastern entrance from the Wenigemarkt onto the Krämerbrücke. It is one of the two former bridgehead churches; its twin, St Benedict's at the western end, stood from the 11th century until it was demolished in 1890 and survives only in the name Benediktsplatz.

    The church was first mentioned in 1110. After a fire destroyed the bridge and the church in 1293 it was rebuilt in rubble stone and finished in 1325, built mainly for travelling merchants. In the Middle Ages the ground floor was an open hall used for selling, which is why the nave sits one storey higher; the church interior is on the first floor, with the choir in a late Gothic oriel window. Its bell, cast in 1382, is the second oldest in Erfurt.

    Its later life was anything but sacred. Services stopped in 1615, a merchant leased it in 1657, and in 1827 it was sold and partly used as a warehouse, with a shop on the ground floor whose doorways turned up during renovation. Bought back as a tenement in 1927 and restored from 1957 to 1960, it became a place of worship again for the United Methodist Church and is the oldest church in the world used by Methodists.

    You climb the tower for a small donation, cash only. It is a short, cheap visit and a good fit if you want to stand on the bridge's own church before walking it. From here it is 60 m, a minute, through the archway onto the bridge.

    Hours
    Daily: 11:00–17:00
    Price
    Tower 2.50 EUR (donation, cash only)
  5. 5

    Krämerbrücke

    Krämerbrücke in Erfurt, stop 5 on the self-guided walking tour

    You enter through an arch 3.75 m wide and 3.25 m high, and suddenly you are on a cobbled street lined with half-timbered houses, not on a bridge at all. The Krämerbrücke, the merchants' bridge, is one of the few bridges left anywhere with inhabited buildings on it, and it has been lived on for over 500 years, longer than any other bridge in Europe. Walking it is free and open at all hours.

    The stone bridge dates from 1325, built of limestone and sandstone over the Breitstrom, a branch of the Gera, to connect the Wenigemarkt with the Benediktsplatz. In total it is 125 m long; the part carried by six barrel arches, between 5.5 m and 8 m wide, measures 79 m. At first wooden stalls stood on top for trade.

    Then came the fire of 1472, which destroyed nearly half of the city and the market stalls on the bridge. The houses you see were finished in 1486: sixty-two timber-framed buildings went up along the two sides, with a street running between the rows. Over time the small houses were merged, and today there are 32, with shops on the ground floor and homes above. These three-storey houses, 13 to 15 m high, form the longest rows of inhabited buildings on any bridge in Europe.

    Take your time here, go into a shop or two, and look at the arches from the side if you can. From the bridge it is 90 m, about a minute, to the Old Synagogue.

    Hours
    Freely accessible, no opening hours
    Price
    Free
  6. 6

    Old Synagogue

    Old Synagogue in Erfurt, stop 6 on the self-guided walking tour

    The Old Synagogue is currently closed, so this is a stop to see from outside, but it is worth the detour of a minute. Its oldest parts have been dated by tree rings to 1094, and because its roof is intact it is thought to be the oldest intact synagogue building in the world. Most of what stands today dates from around 1250 to 1320; from a second building phase in the 12th century part of the western wall survives, with a sandstone double-arched window.

    Its survival is a dark story. After the Black Death, the Jewish community of Erfurt was massacred and expelled in 1349, and the building became a storehouse, later a restaurant and even a ballroom. By the Nazi era nobody remembered it had been a synagogue, so it was left untouched; only in the late 1980s did interest in its history return.

    Since 2009 it has served as a museum of local Jewish history, home to the Erfurt Treasure, a hoard of medieval coins, goldsmiths' work and jewellery found in 1998, and to facsimiles of the Erfurt Hebrew Manuscripts from the 12th to 14th centuries. In 2023 the synagogue, the mikveh and the Stone House, a secular building from about 1250 with Jewish owners, were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. From here it is 110 m, about 2 minutes, to the Fischmarkt.

    Local name
    Alte Synagoge
    Status
    Currently closed
  7. 7

    Fischmarkt

    Fischmarkt in Erfurt, stop 7 on the self-guided walking tour

    The Fischmarkt is the square where Erfurt's civic life has always gathered. It was first recorded in 1293, and because so many markets were held here it slowly became the social centre of the city; in 1275 a first town hall went up on its east side. The neo-Gothic town hall you see on the same spot dates from 1875, by Theodor Sommer and August Thiede, and was considerably extended in the 1930s to designs by Johannes Klass. The square is part of the pedestrian zone and free to wander.

    Opposite the town hall stands a column from 1591 topped by an armed warrior, known as the Römer. It was a message to the archbishop of Mainz, then lord of the city: the citizens were ready to defend their freedoms by force if they had to.

    Look around at the merchant houses that show how rich Erfurt was in the early modern period: the Haus zum Roten Ochsen from 1562, the Haus zur Güldenen Krone from 1564, the Haus zum Breiten Herd from 1584 and the Haus zum Güldenen Löwen from 1740. To the right of the town hall the savings bank building of 1934 and 1935, also by Johannes Klass in the New Objectivity style, lost its painted facade and its nine metre stained glass windows to American artillery fire in April 1945.

    From the Fischmarkt it is 310 m, about 4 minutes, to the Natural History Museum Erfurt.

    Hours
    Freely accessible, no opening hours
    Price
    Free
  8. 8

    Natural History Museum Erfurt

    Natural History Museum Erfurt, stop 8 on the self-guided walking tour

    The Natural History Museum Erfurt sits in a woad warehouse from 1577 in the Große Arche, and the building alone is a reason to look in. It reopened here in 1995 after four years of construction. The museum itself is older: it opened in 1922 in the Haus zum Stockfisch, with the Erfurt teacher and entomologist Otto Rapp among its founders, closed there in 1968, and its collections spent the following years in makeshift storage.

    The striking thing is in the atrium: a 350-year-old English oak, felled in Erfurt's city forest in 1991, stands right through the building. You see its roots on the ground floor, and its crown reaches the top floor; it is 14 m tall and about a metre across at its widest.

    The permanent exhibition covers forest, field, city and the history of the earth, with changing special shows. In the cellar vault you find part of Godehard Schwethelm's mineral collection of 6,500 specimens, and next to it a recreated Noah's Ark: animals stand inside a swaying ship's hull, a reminder of how threatened biodiversity is worldwide.

    For families this is the stop to go inside; it charges admission, and there is a family ticket. From here it is 220 m, about 3 minutes, to the Domplatz.

    Local name
    Naturkundemuseum Erfurt
    Hours
    Mon: Closed | Tue–Sun: 10:00–18:00
    Price
    6 EUR adults, 4 EUR reduced, 13 EUR family, children under 6 free
  9. 9

    Domplatz

    Domplatz in Erfurt, stop 9 on the self-guided walking tour

    The Domplatz opens up wide: more than 14,000 m², once Erfurt's main market and the place where justice was done. On the west side, on the Domberg, rise Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severus Church side by side. In the square stand the Minerva fountain of 1784 and the Erthal obelisk, raised in 1777 in honour of the Mainz elector. The square is open and free.

    It was not always this big. A whole quarter around St Severus fell to the artillery fire on the French-held fortress in 1813 and was never rebuilt, and the square has been much larger ever since. You can read that history in the ground: the original church-owned part is paved in basalt, the part where the Severi quarter stood is laid with concrete blocks and belongs to the city.

    Look around the edges. In front of St Severus the canons' houses run to the Bonifatius tower, part of the former bishop's castle. On the north side stands the regional court of 1880, and next to it the rear entrance to the buildings of the former Stasi district authority, including its prison, now a memorial and the last stop before you return to the citadel. On the slope of the Petersberg a vineyard was laid out with the help of the partner town of Bechtheim, and the city's coat of arms is planted in flowers.

    During East German times, cathedral architect Erwin Gramse kept both churches standing with donations, building materials and some craftsmen from West Germany. From the square it is 100 m, about 2 minutes, to the cathedral.

    Hours
    Freely accessible, no opening hours
    Price
    Free
  10. 10

    Erfurt Cathedral

    Erfurt Cathedral, stop 10 on the self-guided walking tour

    Erfurt Cathedral, St Mary's, is the largest and oldest church building in the city and the seat of the Catholic bishop of Erfurt. Together with St Severus next door it forms the city's landmark. What you see is mainly Gothic from the 14th and 15th centuries, but the hill has held churches much longer: Saint Boniface built one here in 742, a Romanesque basilica followed in the mid-12th century, and in the early 14th century the mound itself was enlarged to make room for the new cathedral.

    The hill also has a grim story. In 1184 Henry VI, King of Germany, called an assembly here; a floor gave way and about 60 people, many of them nobles, drowned in the latrine pit below. More than three centuries later, on 3 April 1507, Martin Luther was ordained a priest in this cathedral, two years after he entered the Augustinian Monastery you saw this morning.

    Inside, look for the stained glass windows and the furnishings. In the central of the three towers hangs the Maria Gloriosa, cast by Geert van Wou in 1497. At the time it was the largest free-swinging bell in the world, today it is the largest surviving medieval bell, and it is known for the purity of its tone.

    The interior is free. A cathedral tour, the bell tour to the Gloriosa, the treasury and the Mary mosaic each cost extra; if you choose one, the bell tour suits anyone curious about that record bell. St. Severus is just 40 m away.

    Local name
    Erfurter Dom
    Hours
    Apr–Oct: Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00, Sun 13:00–17:00 | Nov–Mar: Mon–Sat 10:00–17:00, Sun 13:00–17:00
    Price
    Church interior free | cathedral tour: 8 EUR adults, 6 EUR reduced | bell tour (Gloriosa): 8 EUR, 6 EUR reduced | cathedral treasury: 8 EUR | Mary mosaic: 6 EUR, 4 EUR reduced
  11. 11

    St. Severus Church

    St. Severus Church in Erfurt, stop 11 on the self-guided walking tour

    St. Severus Church stands right next to the cathedral, and its unusual Gothic form, which seems to anticipate the late Gothic hall church, makes it one of the most important Gothic buildings in Germany. Inside, the bones of its patron Severus of Ravenna rest in an artistically very significant sarcophagus. Entry is free.

    The story of the site reaches far back and is partly uncertain. A Benedictine monastery of St Paul, possibly with nuns, is said to have been founded here in 708, and in 836 Archbishop Otgar of Mainz had the bones of Severus brought from Ravenna to it. Excavations in 1960 and 1961 found no remains of an older church, so who founded it and when stays open; some still credit Saint Boniface.

    Around 1079 and 1080, when Henry IV took Erfurt, the churches were set on fire along with the people who had fled into them. The old High Minster was pulled down and rebuilt smaller on the same spot. By 1121 a canonry at St Severus is documented, a second collegiate church on the hill beside the cathedral, and before 1123 Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz built his residence, the Krummhaus, just east of the church.

    Look at the sarcophagus and the shape of the hall, then leave the church hill: it is 420 m, about 6 minutes, to the Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße.

    Local name
    St. Severi
    Hours
    Mon–Sat 10:00–18:00, Sun & holidays 13:00–18:00 (May–Oct; Nov–Apr until 17:00)
    Price
    0 EUR
  12. 12

    Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße

    Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße in Erfurt, stop 12 on the self-guided walking tour

    After a morning of electors and archbishops, the loop ends in living memory. The Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße is a memorial and exhibition in the former remand prison of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, part of the district authority whose rear gate you saw on the Domplatz. You walk the cells and corridors and learn how repression worked here, and how the Peaceful Revolution ended the state that ran it, in the place where it happened.

    Go in if you have any interest in the East German years; it is the cheapest ticket on the route.

    From the memorial it is 570 m, about 10 minutes, back up to the Petersberg Citadel, where the Stasi Records Agency keeps its archives in the former lower barracks. The loop closes where it began, and the two churches you look across at from the hill are now places you have stood in.

    Local name
    Gedenkstätte Andreasstraße
    Hours
    Mon: Closed | Tue: 12:00–20:00 | Wed: 10:00–18:00 | Thu: 12:00–20:00 | Fri–Sun: 10:00–18:00
    Price
    Adults 2 EUR, reduced 1 EUR (free 1st Tuesday of month)
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Shorter Ways to Walk Erfurt

Not everyone has a full day. These three cuts of the loop keep its strongest parts and tell you what each one costs.

Medieval core in about an hour

Stops: 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

For a first visit with little time. You go through the Ägidienkirche archway, across the Krämerbrücke, past the Old Synagogue and over the Fischmarkt to the Domplatz, Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severus Church. That is 14 minutes of walking; the only optional cost is the tower donation, since both churches on the hill are free inside.

The whole loop without tickets

Stops: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

For travellers on a tight budget. You walk every stop, 1 h 5 min on foot, but go inside only where it is free: the citadel grounds, the monastery courtyards, the cathedral and St. Severus. Plan about three hours with time in the two churches.

Cathedral hill and the twentieth century

Stops: 9, 10, 11, 12, 1

For history readers who want the church hill and the Stasi prison. From the Domplatz you take in the cathedral and St. Severus, walk down to the Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße and finish at the Petersberg Citadel: 19 minutes of walking, a small entry fee at the memorial, roughly two hours in total.

How Long Does This Erfurt Tour Take with Museums and Towers?

The walking itself takes 1 h 5 min over 4.6 km, and the legs in the old town are short: from the Ägidienkirche to the Domplatz no single walk is longer than four minutes. The two longer legs come at the start, 17 minutes from the citadel to the monastery and 12 minutes on to the Angermuseum.

With the monastery visit, both museums, the tower, the cathedral and the Stasi memorial, plan about six and a half hours including the walking. A good anchor: start at the citadel at 10:00, give it half an hour, and the 17 minute walk puts you at the Augustinian Monastery at 10:47, in time for the public tour. The free loop takes about three hours, the medieval core about an hour, and the cathedral hill with the memorial about two.

Before You Set Off in Erfurt

  • Start and finish: The recommended start is the Petersberg Citadel, and the loop brings you back there. You can join at any stop; the order here is the one that flows best.
  • Best day and time: Check that the Angermuseum, the Natural History Museum Erfurt and the Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße are open on your day. Start in the morning, once the citadel's visitor centre has opened.
  • Entry costs: Walking the loop is free; the inside visits are not. The monastery visit, the Angermuseum, the Natural History Museum and the Stasi Memorial charge admission, the tower asks for a donation, and the commander's house exhibition at the citadel is paid too.
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What the AI Tour Guide Adds on Erfurt's Loop

The AI Tour Guide walks this loop with you as a conversation. It greets you on the Petersberg, tells the stories of each place, asks what pulls you in, whether that is Luther, the Mainz archbishops or the Stasi years, and shapes the rest of the walk around it. Ask it why woad made Erfurt rich enough for warehouses like the one that now holds the oak tree, or why Luther left the monastery in 1511, and it picks up the thread; you can interrupt it at any point. You start with 100 free credits; after that you choose this tour all-inclusive for €19.99 with no time limit, or €5 per hour.

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Common Questions About Walking Erfurt

Which places on the route can I visit for free?

The citadel grounds, the monastery courtyards, Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severus Church cost nothing to enter.

How should I order the visits on a Sunday?

Walk to the Augustinian Monastery in the morning, for the audio guide visit or the public tour, and keep Erfurt Cathedral and St. Severus Church for the afternoon.

Can I combine Erfurt with a nearby town?

Yes. Weimar is 21 km away and Gotha 23 km, both with their own walking tours; Eisenach at 49 km adds another Luther chapter to the one you walk through at the Augustinian Monastery.

Is the tour really free?

Yes. The whole tour is free: the route, the interactive map and the navigation cost you nothing. Only the voice AI Tour Guide is optional and paid: you test it with 100 free credits, then you pay either €5 per hour or €19.99 for this whole tour, with no time limit. Admission to 3 of the 12 stops is not included: Angermuseum, Natural History Museum Erfurt and Stasi Memorial Andreasstraße charge their own entry fees.

Do I need to download an app?

No. Everything runs in your phone browser. Open the route and start walking, no download and no sign-up required.

Do I need to book the walking tour in advance?

No booking needed. This self-guided tour is available anytime. Open the route in your browser and start walking. The AI Tour Guide works instantly, no app, no reservation required.

What languages is the AI Tour Guide available in?

The AI Tour Guide speaks 13 languages, so you take the tour in your own language and can switch at any time.

Can I skip stops or change the route?

Yes. Skip any stop, spend extra time at places you like, or start the route from any point. It is your walk, you set the pace.
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