SANTO DOMINGO – In the town of Wick, there is a street so small that many people walk past it without noticing. It is Ebenezer Place, officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest street in the world.
Its exact length is a mere 2.05 meters, a measurement roughly equivalent to the height of a professional basketball player. Even so, it has an official name, appears on maps, and has a registered address.
Located between Union Street and River Street in Scotland, Ebenezer Place has an even more curious feature: there is only one door on the entire street. This door belongs to a historic 19th-century hotel, which now houses the restaurant “Number 1 Bistro”.
According to historical records cited by Guinness World Records and Infobae, the street officially appeared in urban documents between 1886 and 1887, although it did not achieve international fame until 2006, when it was measured and certified as the shortest on the planet.
Before this recognition, the record belonged to an English street measuring over five meters wide, more than twice the size of the Scottish street. Since then, Ebenezer Place has become a tourist attraction and one of the most unusual corners of urban planning worldwide.
Although some visitors question whether it should really be considered a separate street due to its size, local authorities maintain its official recognition and continue to include it within Wick's town plan.
What for many would be just a space between buildings, ended up becoming one of the most famous streets in the world.
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