Sometimes we don’t have days to get to know a city—we have an hour that appears between everything else. A layover, a short commute, or a small gap in the itinerary. Accordingly, the question becomes less about seeing everything, and more about how to thread a city’s essence into something you can actually walk through.
The trick, as any seasoned traveler learns, is not coverage—it’s choreography. Picking the places and experiences that say the most about a city in the shortest distance between them.
What follows are tight,…