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I've decided to take a short break from my non-stop bashing of all things not Kaiser, and post a topic, not one of destruction, but of beauty. Not one of death but of life.
What is, in your opinion, the most beutiful city on Earth?
For me, it has to be Munich.
If you'd guys like, I can post some of the pics I took when I was there back in June.
Perth in Western Australia... makes Sydney beaches look a dirty brown, makes Sydney skies look grey and the city is clean.
paris for a big citie the the prettiest small city would be siena in tuscany
In terms of just sheer beauty, I think I would go for Prague (of course being there for vacation on a sunny wekend in May helps to create that impression).
I also loved Barcelona - the Gaudi buildings add a certain uniqueness to the look of the city.
In Germany, Munich is a good choice - I was also surprised how beautiful Dresden actually is...
Chicago without a doubt. The skyline is the best looking in the world, and the lake front is great for sitting around wasting time. Besides I'm here ~;)
A Clear Summer day in Downtown Seattle or Vancouver.
Although as far as beauty on a day to day basis, I think Athens and Istanbul are the two prettiest cities in the world.
I would have to say Glasgow ~;)
But apart from that Prague was really nice, wasn't too keen on Barcelona I thought the Gaudi buildings were, well, crap to be honest. I'm going to Dubrovnik in a month, anyone know anything about it?
Heathen! :stare: ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ja'chyra
(I can understand though that his stuff has definitely a love it or hate it character)
haven't been to that much cities yet but I can say Paris is beautifull.
But I also love the atmosphere in smaller more southren cities...
Monaco. I love it ~D
Others, I would choose Budapest(really a great Medieval city), Wien(I love the gothic architecture), in Germany I only passed fast :embarassed:
I also liked Rome. Really interesting.
Or Amiens, in France. Small town but very cute.
Amiens? arrrrrh, sad, dark, dirty town. Lille is much better. Paris not bad either, in the area..... I did like Cordoba & Quebec a lot, too. Montréal......erm, no, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
El_slapper,
Sometimes yes. But most of the time, not very. I especially liked the Cathedral. Very beautiful.
I haven't seen Lille(yet). As for Paris, good. My parents are especially fond of Paris and Venice. I don't even wanna know why.
Adelaide - after living in Sydney, the clean, wide open Adelaide was wonderful. Nice cricket ground too ~:)
Bath - wonderful old city. And had more hot chicks than any other place I've been
York - You can't move there for tripping over some historical building. Last time I went it was blanketed in snow, lovely ~:)
London! Some of it is admittedly crap, but there are some places that are very nice. I especially like the new building, the 'Gherkin'.
http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/gherkin.jpg
An incredibly odd, but somehow beautiful building.
The Vatican City.
Rome or Copenhagen would fall into 2nd place for me. Rome for the magnificent buildings and architecture, Copenhagen for the beautiful people (oh those beautiful Danes...) and their architecture.
Munich springs to mind too, for the Hofbrau House - my favorite pub in the world.
Brisbane is getting nicer with every year labor is in charge of the state.
but other then that stockholm springs to mind, or Hobart...
i hated adelaide so much it gave me a headache, adelaide is hole full of bogan D*&$s
thanks,
dizzy
lol, to be honest it kinds of gets my back up when tour guides and locals tell you that you have to love it, I'm quite capable of making my own mind up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
Aye, both of these are nice, I'm thinking of moving to Bath but I don't know if I can afford it :embarassed:Quote:
Bath - wonderful old city. And had more hot chicks than any other place I've been
York - You can't move there for tripping over some historical building. Last time I went it was blanketed in snow, lovely
I loved Rome; could easily wander around all day exploring, there were so many things to see. Another excellent city is Venice. London I enjoyed because there was so much to do. Anything you could possibly want can be founds there, plus there was excellent clubbing.
Bath gets my pick, it's a wonderful place. I love Edinburgh as well.
The civic centre of Cardiff is also very pretty, especially at night.
http://www.bakerlite.co.uk/pics/Wale...c%20centre.jpg
We have a nice castle, too, which is right in the centre of town.
http://members.optushome.com.au/adom.../Images/42.jpg
Edinburgh is great ecspecially when the Tatto is on now there is a good show to see, i also Love St Andrews, mainly because i love all of Scotland.
I would have to go for florence. You just wander around with your jaw hanging open.
:jawdrop:
Carcasonne
Well in terms of location, I would have to say Geneva. I mean everytime I look out of my bedroom window, I see this:
http://www.geneva.ch/ImageG/merc.jpg
View from a friend of mine's balcony:
http://www.switzerlandtours.net/imag...witzerland.jpg
http://www.p178host.com/ppgallery/fa...enery_(02).jpg
And out of the lounge, in good weather you can see Europe's highest mountain, the Mont Blanc.
http://icalepcs2005.web.cern.ch/ical.../MontBlanc.jpg
And it also has a very nice Old Town
http://www.switzerlandmeetings.com/s...neva-ville.jpg
http://www.stevesphotos.bonwalcpm.co...d_town_JPG.jpg
But architecturally speaking, I would choose Vienna for its beautiful Baroque and 19th century architecture.
Well, it's definately not Cairo.
I would go with Samarkand
Tell me now don't you...i might be moving there in a year or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by dessa14
What a silly question. There's no more beautiful city then florence. That city has more art then some countries all together! ~:eek:
I also love Athens which is where I used to live. Also Ediborough has struck my eye for it's fantastic castle etc..
From what I've seen, Vienna. But I really want to take a big trip around Italy someday so i can see Rome and Florence.
I really don't like Paris though, and I don't care much for London either, at least not for the look of it.
Athens??? really? If you like traffic jams and unfinished concrete boxes maybe. Being an architect in Athens must be the easiest job in the world, I know, we'll build another concrete box and not put a roof on, brilliant.
Prague and Bath have already been mentioned. Oxford is pretty good, although I suppose the pretty old bit:boring new bit ratio is better in (spit)Cambridge(spit).
Bergen in Norway is nice.
Old parts of St.Petersbourgh(spelling?) are very beutifull.
Wellas for the US our oldest one is pretty nice
http://hometown.aol.com/marzpatton/i...tine,%20fl.jpg
And its got a neat fort.
http://hometown.aol.com/marzpatton/i...n%20marcos.jpg
Its St Augustine Fla by the way.
I hear Vienna is truly beautiful and I think Moscows pretty neat also.
I´m surprised no one mentioned Ghent yet. Probably many simply don´t know it. It´s a very beatiful city. Of course, Leuven has some nice architecture too:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...us/Rathaus.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...us/StPeter.jpg
Nurnberg. (this is a Canadian keyboard, please excuse the spelling, lack of accents, etc., whatever else...)
Salzburg, Austria is a great city too.
San Diego, CA
I went there a couple of years ago, beuatiful city and one of the best in America IMHO
There is a tiny town (admittedly, not a city) near Avingon, called Aix-En-Provence. (I think that's how it's spelled; my French is rustier than a Model T left out in the open for 15 years.) It is, in my opinion, the most beautiful civilized place on earth.
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Originally Posted by meatwad
Very true. Very beautiful indeed! :thumbsup:
I guess I'm too used to them ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by A.Saturnus
Imho Brugge is the most beautiful Belgian city.
Bruges, Prague, Santiago de Compostella.
They're so beautiful they make me weep.
I can't see that any city is 'beautiful' myself
.....Orda
prague and florence are the correct answers. congrats to the winners!
Any city is beatiful, but only if you visit.
I'm going for London (well, the middle bit)
I'd have to go with Prague and Barcelona, as Ser Clegane did. Wonderful cities.
I haven't seen Bilbao mentioned. It's a very pretty city, especially along the river. The Guggenheim museum there is stunning.
I also like Naples, although in some areas it is also one of the dirtiest non-Jersey cities I've ever seen. It's very nice once you get away from the harbor.
Palma, Majorca is up there too. Very pretty city, wonderful views from the hills looking down to the sea.
Haifa, Israel is another city with wonderful views and is overall very pretty.
Dubai, UAE is quickly becoming a very pretty city as well. It is amazing to see it coming from the desert side. It just sort of appears like a jewel in the sand.
I love wandering around Rome as much for the atmosphere as any particular sight, and also have fond memories of the Toronto skyline seen from the lake an autumn day years ago, but I'd have to cast my vote for Durham. I was at university there and passed through again a couple of months ago and it was still as beautiful as ever, mix of the architecture and the River Wear and the hills give it a character Oxford and Cambridge don't have.
I've only been in two cities in France, Wissembourg and Straussbourg, and admittingly, I only liked Wissembourg (it's right on the boarder with Germany if you're wondering, Hitler built an Arch outside of it on the boarder, very beutiful area, nice wine country), but I've been to a few different cities in Germany.
The ones that stick out the most have to be Munich, Heidelburg, and Speyer. Incredebly Beutiful cities. Heidelburg is a very old town, most of the buildings look as if they were built in 1700 and remained perfectly preserved.
Here's the one picture I wasn't too lazy to take while I was there (I'm stealing some off of a few of my friends)
https://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?...10001266mb.jpg
That's down the river that cuts through the center of it, from the non-historical district of the city.
For Munich, for those who have never seen it, it is truely a wonderful city.
https://img371.imageshack.us/my.php?...10000255et.jpg
This is from the building that the Glockenspiel is on, unfortunatly, I do not have a picture of the Glockenspiel.
https://img371.imageshack.us/img371/6234/10000272fs.jpg
A beutiful sculpture of a dragon, near the Mariamplatz [sp]
https://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9710/10000292np.jpg
Inside one of the many Cathederals of Munich.
https://img275.imageshack.us/img275/279/10000396zk.jpg
This bronze statue of a boar is suposedly lucky if you rub it's nose, I rubbed it, and got beer later that day.
https://img275.imageshack.us/img275/2506/10000409td.jpg
A view down the street at the Frauenkirche.
https://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2350/10000416lx.jpg
The Black and White Church
https://img227.imageshack.us/img227/7905/10000477qc.jpg
The inside of the Black and White Church
https://img348.imageshack.us/img348/6346/10000493em.jpg
Another church
https://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2423/10000535ng.jpg
The Inside of that church
https://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9978/10000613oe.jpg
On the way to get beer, we found this. Maybe Clegane or some other German member can explain what this is to us. Nice architechture in the background; thats the street the Beerhall Pustch took place, you can see where the roadblock was.
https://img297.imageshack.us/img297/...000062a7yu.jpg
Nymphenburg Palace
https://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3150/10000685ca.jpg
Nymphenburgs gardens
I'll post some of Speyer, and Strausborg later, but that's Heidelburg and Munich. Two very wonderful cities that I love, despite me only being there once.
Nice to see that you had such a great time there. You make it sound like a dream come true, which it probably is. And from now on you'll know the full meaning of gepflegte Barock, don't you?
Well, do you? ~:cool:
It really was a dream come true. If only I could have stayed for longer, and seen Berlin...Quote:
Originally Posted by AdrianII
Yes, I do think I know the real meaning of geplegte Barock (Baroque well maintained, correct?), now. Gott, Ich leibe Deutschland.
You will see Berlin one day. You'll be taking your girlfriend there, wanna bet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
Yes, something like 'carefully/lovingly crafted'. Actually it is untranslatable...Quote:
Yes, I do think I know the real meaning of geplegte Barock (Baroque well maintained, correct?), now.
Me too. 'Cept for those leather trousers with the back and front flaps.Quote:
Gott, Ich leibe Deutschland.
Did you wear them in Munich? Of course not. But did you want to?
Go on, admit it. ~;)
...me and my friends were looking for some cheap leiderhosen while we were there, we found none lol. Would have made for a great photo op.
I would say Granada. The mixture of Western and Islamic architecture works well and the Alhambra is just stunning.
I loved Paris , very nice city to walk in - lot's of stuff to see.
Also I went to Sevilla and that was beautifull too, though it was a little hot.
And being Dutch , my heart also goes out to Amsterdam , love being there ~:)
:balloon2:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...3/DSCF2024.jpg
I'd say Prague would be in the running for me, amazingly well preserved place, many beautiful buildings...can't find any of my Chicago pics., but i must say i was bowled over by that as well...
Capetown. Table mountain on one side, the ocean on other side. Simply the "fairest cape in the circumference of the Earth."
Santorini. Can't find a good picture of the whole city, but hopefully this will do.
https://img293.imageshack.us/img293/...etgr0196qu.jpg
dude who said chicago you gotta be kidding me that place smells but not as bad as newyork